Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour Du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era, (Paperback)

"[A] remarkable biography....Moorehead deftly wields periods detail...to tell the story of a captivating woman who kept her sense of self amid the vicissitudes of politics." --Vogue From acclaimed biographer Caroline Moorhead comes Dancing to the Precipice, a sweeping chronicle of the remarkable life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin--"an astute, thoroughly engaging biography of a formidable woman" (Boston Globe) who, over the span of some 80 years, was witness to, and often a participant in the major social upheavals of eighteenth-century French history.

Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour Du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era, (Paperback) Author: Harper Perennial ISBN: 9780061684425 Format: Paperback Publication Date: 2010-07-27 Page Count: 512