Caroline Moorehead is the New York Times bestselling author of the Resistance Quartet, which includes A Bold and Dangerous Family, Village of Secrets, and A Train in Winter, as well as Human Cargo, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. An acclaimed biographer, she has written for the New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Independent. She lives in London and Italy.
Dancing to the Precipice. The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era
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- FormatePub
- ISBN978-0-06-188752-9
- EAN9780061887529
- Date de parution30/06/2009
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- ÉditeurHarper
Résumé
"[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 historical biography includes: A firsthand look at the Ancien Régime: Experience the glittering, corrupt court of Louis XVI in its final days before being consumed by revolution. Escape from The Terror: Follow Lucie's harrowing flight from the guillotine, which claimed many of her friends and family, and her surprising reinvention as a farmer in fledgling America. An Unflinching Eyewitness Account: An intimate chronicle of resilience through the Napoleonic era and the Bourbon Restoration, told with shrewdness, humor, and remarkable recall.
A Who's Who of History: Walk the halls of power alongside a woman who knew everyone, from Talleyrand and Lafayette to the Empress Josephine herself.
This definitive historical biography includes: A firsthand look at the Ancien Régime: Experience the glittering, corrupt court of Louis XVI in its final days before being consumed by revolution. Escape from The Terror: Follow Lucie's harrowing flight from the guillotine, which claimed many of her friends and family, and her surprising reinvention as a farmer in fledgling America. An Unflinching Eyewitness Account: An intimate chronicle of resilience through the Napoleonic era and the Bourbon Restoration, told with shrewdness, humor, and remarkable recall.
A Who's Who of History: Walk the halls of power alongside a woman who knew everyone, from Talleyrand and Lafayette to the Empress Josephine herself.
