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Dancing to the Precipice: Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution
Caroline Moorehead
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Description for Dancing to the Precipice: Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution
paperback. A biography of Lucie de la Tour du Pin. It includes details about her life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's rule. It reveals how she recorded people, politics and intrigue, alongside the intriguing minutia of everyday life: food, work, illness, children, manners and clothes. Num Pages: 512 pages, 8. BIC Classification: 1DDF; BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 134 x 38. Weight in Grams: 574.
Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in, and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's rule, Lucie survived extraordinary times with great spirit. She recorded people, politics and intrigue, alongside the intriguing minutia of everyday life: food, work, illness, children, manners and clothes.
Caroline Moorehead's richly novelistic biography sets Lucy and her dairies in their wider context, illuminating a remarkable period of history.
Dancing to the Precipice was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award 2009.
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Books
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
528
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099490524
SKU
V9780099490524
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About Caroline Moorehead
Caroline Moorehead is the biographer of Bertrand Russell, Freya Stark, Iris Origo and Martha Gellhorn. Well known for her work in human rights, she has published a history of the Red Cross and a book about refugees, Human Cargo and most recently, A Train in Winter. Caroline lives in London.
Reviews for Dancing to the Precipice: Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution
Utterly captivating... brings to life both Lucie and the glorious and terrible years through which she lived with a novelistic vividness, full of sights and sounds and flavours
Sunday Times
A scintillating biography...Moorehead succeeds triumphantly [and] brings an assured grip on contemporary politics and a colourful sense of place
Daily Telegraph
A rich and satisfying book which not only adds to our appreciation of Madame de la Tour du Pin's story but brings the whole tumultuous period and its characters to life
Spectator
Lucie de la Tour de Pin has found a biographer worthy of her own storytelling skills. With a light-handed touch, Moorehead sets Lucie's story in its wider social and historical context, sketching the complicated political twists and turns in a way that makes them memorable without ever dumbing down
Kathryn Hughes
Mail on Sunday
Never less than a gripping story of an extraordinary life
Literary Review
Here is the latest from Caroline Moorhead whose work is never less than rigorously and beautifully composed
Daily Express
Moorehead has an eye for the detail... The book sparkles with gems about life at the court of Marie-Antoinette
Hugh MacDonald
The Herald
romantic adventure, staged in colourful historical settings...moral tale
Biancamaria Fontana
Times Literary Supplement
The attraction of Moorehead's biography lies in her seamless fusion of Lucie's warm subjectivity with a broad historical canvas of bitter turmoil.
Siofra Pierse
Irish Times
comprehensive and absorbing biography
Clare Colvin
Independent
Sunday Times
A scintillating biography...Moorehead succeeds triumphantly [and] brings an assured grip on contemporary politics and a colourful sense of place
Daily Telegraph
A rich and satisfying book which not only adds to our appreciation of Madame de la Tour du Pin's story but brings the whole tumultuous period and its characters to life
Spectator
Lucie de la Tour de Pin has found a biographer worthy of her own storytelling skills. With a light-handed touch, Moorehead sets Lucie's story in its wider social and historical context, sketching the complicated political twists and turns in a way that makes them memorable without ever dumbing down
Kathryn Hughes
Mail on Sunday
Never less than a gripping story of an extraordinary life
Literary Review
Here is the latest from Caroline Moorhead whose work is never less than rigorously and beautifully composed
Daily Express
Moorehead has an eye for the detail... The book sparkles with gems about life at the court of Marie-Antoinette
Hugh MacDonald
The Herald
romantic adventure, staged in colourful historical settings...moral tale
Biancamaria Fontana
Times Literary Supplement
The attraction of Moorehead's biography lies in her seamless fusion of Lucie's warm subjectivity with a broad historical canvas of bitter turmoil.
Siofra Pierse
Irish Times
comprehensive and absorbing biography
Clare Colvin
Independent