Letter 115 — CXV
Original French
26 novembre 1808.
J’ai reçu ta lettre. Je désire que ta santé soit aussi bonne que la mienne. Tout marche bien ici. Je pense que tu dois retourner aux Tuileries le 21 décembre, et, à dater de cette époque, donner un concert tous les huit jours.
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.
November 26, 1808.
I have received your letter. I wish your health to be as good as mine. Everything is going well here. I think you should return to the Tuileries on December 21, and from that date give a concert every eight days.
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.
November 26, 1808.
Your letter has arrived. I hope you are as healthy as I am. All is proceeding well here. I think you should go back to the Tuileries on December 21 and give a concert every eight days from that date onward.
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