Letter 106 — CVI
Original French
Dresde, le 18 juillet 1807.
Mon amie, je suis arrivé hier, à cinq heures du soir, à Dresde, fort bien portant, quoique je sois resté cent heures en voiture, sans sortir. Je suis ici chez le roi de Saxe, dont je suis fort content. Je suis donc rapproché de toi de plus de la moitié du chemin. Il se peut qu’une de ces belles nuits, je tombe à Saint-Cloud comme un jaloux, je t’en préviens. Adieu, mon amie; j’aurai grand plaisir à te voir. Tout à toi.
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.
Dresden, July 18, 1807.
My dear friend, I arrived yesterday at five in the evening in Dresden, in very good health, although I had spent a hundred hours in the carriage without getting out. I am here with the King of Saxony, with whom I am very pleased. I am thus more than halfway nearer to you. It may be that one of these fine nights I shall drop in at Saint-Cloud like a jealous husband; I warn you. Farewell, my dear friend; I shall take great pleasure in seeing you. Wholly yours.
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.
Dresden, July 18, 1807.
My dear, I arrived in Dresden yesterday at five in the evening, in very good health, although I spent a hundred hours in a carriage without getting out. I'm here with the king of Saxony, with whom I'm very pleased. So I'm more than halfway closer to you. One of these fine nights I may drop in at Saint-Cloud like a jealous husband; I'm warning you. Goodbye, my dear; I'll be very happy to see you. All yours.
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