Dancing to the precipice : Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution
Moorehead, Caroline, 1944-2010
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Mixing politics and court intrigue, social observation and everyday details about food, work, illness, children, manners and clothes, Caroline Moorehead's vivid biography tells the tale of the wife of a French aristocrat who narrowly escaped the French Revolution.
Main title:
Dancing to the precipice : Lucie de la Tour du Pin and the French Revolution / Caroline Moorehead.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Vintage, 2010.
Collation:
xviii, 492 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2009.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780099490524 (pbk)
Dewey class:
944.04092
Language:
English
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BRN:
635887