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Moorehead, Caroline.
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La Tour du Pin Gouvernet, Henriette Lucie Dillon, marquise de, 1770-1853.
Nobility -- France -- Biography.
Diarists -- France -- Biography.
Diaries -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
France -- Social life and customs -- 1789-1815.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1783-1865.
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Moorehead, Caroline.
La Tour du Pin Gouvernet, Henriette Lucie Dillon, marquise de, 1770-1853.
Nobility -- France -- Biography.
Diarists -- France -- Biography.
Diaries -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
France -- Social life and customs -- 1789-1815.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1783-1865.
MARC Display
Dancing to the precipice : the life of
Lucie
de
la
Tour
du
Pin
, eyewitness to an era / Caroline Moorehead.
by
Moorehead, Caroline.
HarperPerennial, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2010, c2009.
Call #:
944.04092 L359m
Subjects
La
Tour
du
Pin
Gouvernet
,
Henriette
Lucie
Dillon
,
marquise
de
, 1770-1853.
Nobility -- France -- Biography.
Diarists -- France -- Biography.
Diaries -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
France -- Social life and customs -- 1789-1815.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1783-1865.
ISBN:
9780061684425 (pbk.)
9780061684418 (hc.)
Edition:
First HarperPerennial paperback edition.
Description:
xiv, 480 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, 2009.
Summary:
"She experienced 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.
Lucie
Dillon
- a daughter of French and British nobility known in France by her married name,
Lucie
de
la
Tour
du
Pin
- was the chronicler of her age.
La
Rochefoucauld called her "a cultural jewel." The Sultan of the Ottoman Empire favored her for his dinner companion in Paris. Napoleon requested she attend Josephine. Her friends included Talleyrand, Madame
de
Staël, Chateaubriand, Lafayette, and the Duke of Wellington, with whom she played as a child. She witnessed firsthand the demise of the French monarchy, the wave of Revolution and the Reign of Terror, and the precipitous rise and fall of Napoleon. She spent two years as an émigré in the newly independent United States (on a farm in Albany) but was also a familiar of Regency London. A shrewd, determined woman in a turbulent age of men,
Lucie
de
la
Tour
du
Pin
watched, listened, reflected - and wrote it all down, mixing politics and court intrigue, social observation and the realities of everyday existence, to offer a fascinating chronicle of her era. In this compelling biography, Caroline Moorehead illuminates the extraordinary life and remarkable achievements of this strong, witty, elegant, opinionated, and dynamic woman who survived personal tragedy, including the loss of six children, and periods of extreme danger, exile, poverty, and illness. Meticulously researched, brilliantly written, and vastly entertaining, Moorehead's chronicle of
Lucie
's life is an incomparable social history of her times."--Provided by publisher.
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