Dancing to the Precipice

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Historian and biographer Caroline Moorehead looks at Madam de la Tour du Pin, who was groomed as a lady in waiting to Marie Antoinette and who kept a vivid account of the tumultuous collapse of the French Old Regime in her diaries. Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin combines these diaries with the first full-length biography of her.

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