Dancing to the Precipice

<p>[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. <br />--<em>Vogue<p></p></em></p> <p> </p></p><p>From acclaimed biographer Caroline Moorhead comes <em>Dancing to the Precipice </em> a sweeping chronicle of the remarkable life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin--an astute thoroughly engaging biography of a formidable woman (<em>Boston Globe</em>) 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.<p></p></p>