Letter 010 — X
Original French
Vérone, 11 juillet 1796.
À peine parti de Roverbella, j’ai su que l’ennemi se présentait à Vérone. Masséna faisait des dispositions qui ont été très heureuses. Nous avons fait six cents prisonniers, et nous avons pris trois pièces de canon. Le général Brune a eu sept balles dans ses habits, sans avoir été touché par aucune; c’est jouer de bonheur. Je te donne mille baisers. Je me porte très bien. Nous n’avons eu que dix hommes tués et cent blessés.
Musean translation
Machine-assisted Musean English translated from the French of the 172 Napoleon letters selected from Tancrède Martel, ed., Œuvres littéraires de Napoléon Bonaparte, tome 1 (Albert Savine, Paris, 1888). French Wikisource contributors supplied the scan-backed transcription: https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Livre:Bonaparte_-_Œuvres_littéraires,_tome_1,_1888.djvu (page histories credit contributors). The transcription is CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/; this adapted text and translations are shared under the same license. Extraction removes markup and editorial notes; selected transcription repairs were checked against print images.
Verona, July 11, 1796.
I had scarcely left Roverbella when I learned that the enemy was approaching Verona. Masséna made dispositions that proved very successful. We took six hundred prisoners and three cannon. General Brune had seven bullets in his clothes without being hit by any of them; that is playing with luck. I give you a thousand kisses. I am very well. We had only ten men killed and a hundred wounded.
Plain English translation
Independent machine-assisted Plain English translation from the 1888 Martel French edition, not a historical English translation. French Wikisource contributors supplied the scan-backed transcription: https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Livre:Bonaparte_-_Œuvres_littéraires,_tome_1,_1888.djvu (page histories credit contributors). The adapted transcription and translation are shared under CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/. Extraction removes markup and editorial notes and makes documented transcription repairs. French-source model review is not human specialist certification or a complete scan collation.
Verona, July 11, 1796.
No sooner had I left Roverbella than I heard that the enemy was approaching Verona. Masséna made dispositions which proved very successful. We captured six hundred men and three cannon. Seven bullets went through General Brune's clothes without one touching him; that is extraordinary good luck. I give you a thousand kisses. My health is excellent. We lost only ten men killed and a hundred wounded.
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