Dancing to the Precipice - The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era

"[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.