Dancing To The Precipice. The Life Of Lucie De La Tour Du Pin, Eyewitness To An Era

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Chatto And Windus
Publisher Place: 2009
Publisher Year: 2010
Edition: First Edition

Description: 480 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: "[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.

ISBN: 9780061684425