Dancing to the Precipice

“[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.