Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 3

"Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud" by Lewis Goldsmith is a collection of private letters that reveal the concealed details of Napoleon Bonaparte's court in the early 1800s. The writer, a gentleman in Paris, communicates in secret with a nobleman in London, detailing the King and Queen of Naples efforts to maintain power, the roles and personalities of important people like Chevalier Acton plus the complex relationships between European countries as they navigated the turbulent political landscape after the French Revolution. The letters from August 1805, provide firsthand looks into the strategies and rivalries that shaped the era.