“[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.