A Lady of the High Hills: Natalie Belage Sumter

The Journal of Southern History | August 1, 2003| | Copyright

A Lady of the High Hills: Natalie Belage Sumter. By Thomas Tisdale. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2001. Pp. [xx], 188. $29.95, ISBN 1-57003-415-X.)

Charting the extraordinary life of the displaced French aristocrat Natalie Delage Sumter (1782-1841), Tisdale's biography follows its subject from her birth in the palace of Versailles to her death on a South Carolina plantation fifty-nine years later. Born Natalie de Lage de Volude, she was sent to New York at the age of eleven to escape the revolutionary turmoil of her native France. Living in the house of Aaron Burr, Sumter ...

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