Letter 112 — CXII
Original French
Erfurt, octobre 1808.
Mon amie, je t’écris peu, je suis fort occupé. Des conversations de journées entières, cela n’arrange pas mon rhume. Cependant tout va bien. Je suis content d’Alexandre, il doit l’être de moi. S’il était femme, je crois que j’en ferais mon amoureuse. Je serai chez toi dans peu; porte-toi bien, et que je te trouve fraîche et grasse.
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.
Erfurt, October 1808.
My dear friend, I write you little, I am very busy. Conversations that last whole days do nothing to help my cold. Still, all is well. I am pleased with Alexander; he must be pleased with me. If he were a woman, I think I would make him my sweetheart. I shall be with you before long; keep well, and let me find you fresh and plump.
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.
Erfurt, October 1808.
My friend, I am writing only a little because I am very busy. Talking all day does nothing for my cold. Still, everything is going well. I am pleased with Alexander; he must feel the same about me. Were he a woman, I think I would make him my lover. I will be with you soon; stay well, and let me find you looking fresh and plump.
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