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Author Moorehead, Caroline.

Title Dancing to the precipice : the life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, eyewitness to an era / Caroline Moorehead.

Publication Info. New York : Harper, [2009]
©2009

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY LA TOUR    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  B LA TOUR DU PIN    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  B LA TOUR DU PIN    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Biography  B LA TOUR DUPIN GOUVERNET    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  B LA TOUR    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  944.04 MOOREHEAD    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Biographies  B LA TOUR DU PIN    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  944.04 MO    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 480 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note Originally published: London : Chatto & Windus, 2009.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-443) and index.
Summary Shares the story of a turn-of-the-nineteenth-century social chronicler, from her early years among the French and British nobility to her first-hand witness to such events as the demise of the French monarchy and the Reign of Terror.
Subject La Tour du Pin Gouvernet, Henriette Lucie Dillon, marquise de, 1770-1853.
Nobility -- France -- Biography.
France -- Social life and customs -- 1789-1815.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1783-1865.
Tour-du-Pin family.
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