Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era – A Remarkable Biography Spanning 80 Years in 18th-Century France
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Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era – A Remarkable Biography Spanning 80 Years in 18th-Century France
“[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.â€
—Vogue
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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.
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