author
Lewis Goldsmith
d. 1846
A restless political writer who moved between London and Paris, he built his reputation on sharp, fast-moving attacks on governments, revolutions, and Napoleon’s world. His life was as changeable as his politics, making him one of those lively figures who seem to belong to the whole drama of the age.
8 Audiobooks
Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 6
by Lewis Goldsmith
Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 4
by Lewis Goldsmith
Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Complete
by Lewis Goldsmith
Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 7
by Lewis Goldsmith
Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 2
by Lewis Goldsmith
Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 1
by Lewis Goldsmith
About the author
Born around 1763, probably near London, Lewis Goldsmith became known as an Anglo-French publicist and political journalist. Sources describe him as being of Portuguese-Jewish extraction, and several note that he was trained for the law before turning instead to pamphlets, satire, and political writing.
Early in his career he supported the French Revolution. After publishing The Crimes of Cabinets in 1801, he moved to Paris, where he was introduced to Napoleon’s circle and founded The Argus, an English-language paper that looked at British affairs from a French point of view. Later he returned to England, where his politics shifted sharply; by the 1810s he was publishing strongly anti-French and anti-Napoleonic journalism.
That dramatic change of sides helps explain why Goldsmith remains an interesting historical figure as well as an author. He wrote in the middle of the upheavals of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic era, and his books and periodicals carry the urgency, argument, and personal risk of that time. He died in Paris on January 6, 1846.