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Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour Du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era
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Biographies GeneralFrench HistoryGeneral World History
ISBN13: 9780061684425
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Jul 27 2010
Pages: 512
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.04 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
[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.
This definitive French Revolution biography brings a turbulent era to life through the eyes of one of its most resilient observers, chronicling:
- Life at Versailles: An insider's account of the glittering, decadent, and treacherous court of Louis XVI in the final years before the fall of the French monarchy.
- Surviving the Terror: A harrowing narrative of how Lucie navigated the most dangerous days of the French Revolution, witnessing friends and family arrested and sent to the guillotine.
- Escape to America: The remarkable story of an aristocratic family building a new life as farmers in upstate New York, grappling with a rugged landscape and new democratic ideals.
- The Bourbon Restoration: A firsthand perspective on the return of the French kings and the complex social landscape of post-Napoleonic Paris, including friendships with figures like Talleyrand and the Duke of Wellington.
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