Memoirs by Madam De La Tour Du Pin
Madame de la Tour du Pin was born Henrietta-Lucy Dillon in Paris in 1770. An aristocrat, she spent her youth surrounded by wealth and luxury. This work presents a record of her life that recounts the terrible fate that awaited all those who attended the Court of Louis XVI during the years of the French Revolution.
Madame de la Tour du Pin's Journal d'une Femme de Cinquante Ans, with its vivid descriptions of her experiences during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire, is one of the most enthralling memoirs of the age * Spectator *
Aristocrat Henrietta-Lucy Dillon was born to a half-French mother and Anglo-Irish father in Paris in 1770. Married at 16, she spent her early life surrounded by luxury as a regular visitor to the court of Marie Antoinette. An outstanding diarist, in her later life she wrote her memoirs for her only surviving child Aymar; the diary records her experiences during the French Revolution, which saw her fleeing France for America and England, where she lived in much reduced circumstances. She later returned and was for the last years of her life the French ambassadress to Holland and the Kingdom of Sardinia. She died in Pisa, aged 83, having witnessed the Battle of Waterloo, the fall of Napoleon and return of Louis XVIII and the Restoration.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781860465482 |
| ISBN 10 | 186046548X |
| Title | Memoirs |
| Author | Madam De La Tour Du Pin |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 1999-04-29 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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