Volume 16, Number 3 · February 25, 1971
The Soldier in Her
By Nancy Mitford
Memoirs of Madame de La Tour du Pin
translated by Felice Harcourt, with an Introduction by Peter Gay
McCall, 468 pp., $8.95
The Marquise de La Tour du Pin, born in 1770, was a member of the Irish, Jacobite Dillon family. After the Battle of the Boyne, at which the cause of James II was lost, her great-grandfather, Viscount Dillon, emigrated to France with his Irish troops; he was one of the few foreigners at Versailles who was allowed to own and command a regiment and to hand it down to his heirs. (The Scottish Ogilvys also had this privilege.) Two of Mme de La Tour du Pin's great-uncles were killed leading their men in the service of France, one at Fontenoy and one at Lawfeld; her father then became colonel of the Dillon regiment.
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