Letter 102 — CII
Original French
Tilsitt, le 20 juin 1807.
Mon amie, je viens de voir l’empereur Alexandre; j’ai été fort content de lui; c’est un fort beau, bon et jeune empereur; il a de l’esprit plus qu’on ne le pense communément. Il vient loger en ville à Tilsitt demain. Adieu, mon amie, je désire fort que tu te portes bien, et sois contente. Ma santé est fort bonne.
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.
Tilsit, June 20, 1807.
My dear friend, I have just seen Emperor Alexander; I was very pleased with him; he is a very handsome, good, and young emperor; he has more intelligence than is commonly thought. Tomorrow he comes to stay in the town of Tilsit. Farewell, my dear friend, I very much wish you to be well and content. My health is very good.
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.
Tilsit, June 20, 1807.
My dear, I have just seen Emperor Alexander and was very pleased with him. He is a very handsome, good, young emperor, and more intelligent than people generally think. Tomorrow he is coming to stay in the town of Tilsit. Goodbye, my dear. I very much hope you are well and content. My own health is very good.
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