Dancing to the precipice
Subtitle: Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution
By: Caroline Moorehead.
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780701179045
Subjects: La Tour du Pin Gouvernet, Henriette Lucie Dillon, -- marquise de, -- 1770-1853; Tour-du-Pin family; Nobility -- France -- Biography; France -- Social life and customs -- 1789-1815; United States -- Social life and customs -- 1783-1865
Genres: Biography
Description: Lucie de la Tour du Pin was not only an outstanding diarist, but a remarkable woman who was witness to one of the most dramatic and brutal periods of history in which she played the role of an observer, commentator and often, participant.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-443) and index.