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Dancing to the Precipice: Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution

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Condition: Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ... Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab

ISBN: 9780701179045

Publication Year: 2009

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Book Title: Dancing to the Precipice: Lucie De La Tour Du Pin and the French Revolution

Item Height: 238mm

Author: Caroline Moorehead

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Genre: Biographies & True Stories

Item Width: 158mm

Item Weight: 892g

Number of Pages: 496 Pages

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Born Lucie Dillon, to a half-French mother and an Anglo-Irish father, her world was Versailles and the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. She married a French aristocrat, and narrowly survived the French Revolution, escaping to America at the time of Washington and Jefferson. Here, she lived a life of milking cows and chopping wood, having previously been accustomed to the lavish life of the French court. Returning to France prematurely, Lucie had to flee again, this time to England, where she took up sewing in order to support herself and her family.Repeatedly in the right place at the right time, Lucie saw the Battle of Waterloo, the fall of Napoleon and the return of Louis XVIII, and the Restoration. She was an outstanding diarist and a remarkable woman, who witnessed one of the most dramatic and brutal periods of history, playing the part of observer, commentator and, often, participant. For the last years of her life she was ambassadress to Holland and the Kingdom of Sardinia. Her friends included Wellington, Lafayette, Alexander Hamilton, Talleyrand and Madame de Stael. She died, aged 83, in Pisa.Mixing politics and court intrigue, social observation and everyday details about food, work, illness, children, manners and clothes, Caroline Moorehead paints a vivid and memorable portrait of an era - lasting three-quarters of a century - that saw the fortunes of France, as well as those of Lucie herself, rise and fall and rise again. Both as a witness and as a survivor, Lucie is a superb subject for an exemplary biographer.

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Vintage Publishing

ISBN-13

9780701179045

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Book Title

Dancing to the Precipice: Lucie De La Tour Du Pin and the French Revolution

Author

Caroline Moorehead

Format

Hardcover

Language

English

Publication Year

2009

Genre

Biographies & True Stories

Number of Pages

496 Pages

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238mm

Item Width

158mm

Item Weight

892g

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Caroline Moorehead

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United Kingdom

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