The book jacket to Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour du Pin, Eyewitness to an Era, by Caroline Moorehead, explains it perfectly. "Her canvases were 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. Like Saint-Simon at Versailles, [or] Samuel Pepys during the Great Fire of London, Lucie Dillon-a daughter of French and British nobility... was the chronicler of her age."
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