Download or read book Memoirs written by Henriette Lucie Dillon marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet and published by Harvill Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.