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Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era
Dancing to the Precipice The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin Eyewitness to an Era
Author: Caroline Moorehead
Her canvases were the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette; the Great Terror; America at the time of Washington and Jefferson; Paris under the Directoire and then under Napoleon; Regency London; the battle of Waterloo; and, for the last years of her life, the Italian ducal courts. Like Saint-Simon at Versailles, Samuel Pepys during the Great ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780061684425
ISBN-10: 0061684422
Publication Date: 7/1/2010
Pages: 432
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4.3 stars, based on 2 ratings
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Even though I don't understand politics very well, this was a great book about France and England before, during and after the French Revolution. Napoleon, Kings and Queens came alive and some just as quickly died. The descriptions of the clothes, methods of travel and behind the scenes action was great. Glad I read it.
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