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

By Caroline Moorehead

Book Overview

"[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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061684414
• ISBN13: 9780061684418
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"