Dancing to the Precipice: the Life of Lucie De La Tour Du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era 1st edition

?[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.?
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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.