Letter 116 — CXVI
Original French
Madrid, 7 décembre 1808.
Je reçois ta lettre du 28. Je vois avec plaisir que tu te portes bien. Tu as su que le jeune Tascher se comporte bien; cela m’a fait plaisir. Ma santé est bonne. Il fait ici le temps de la dernière quinzaine de mai à Paris. Nous avons chaud, et point de feu, si ce n’est la nuit, qui est assez fraîche. Madrid est tranquille. Toutes mes affaires vont bien. Adieu, mon amie. 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.
Madrid, December 7, 1808.
I have received your letter of the 28th. I am glad to see that you are well. You have heard that young Tascher is conducting himself well; this pleased me. My health is good. The weather here is like the last two weeks of May in Paris. We are warm and have no fire, except at night, which is rather cool. Madrid is peaceful. All my affairs are going well. Farewell, my dear friend. 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.
Madrid, December 7, 1808.
Your letter of the 28th has arrived, and I am pleased to see that your health is good. You have learned that young Tascher is behaving well; I was pleased by that. I am well. Our weather here resembles that of the last fortnight of May in Paris. We are hot and have no fire except at night, which is quite cool. Madrid is calm. All my affairs are going well. Farewell, my friend. All yours.
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Letter 116 — CXVI is part of Letters to Josephine by Napoléon Bonaparte. This page sets the French original beside 2 direct-source translations, so any line can be checked against the source. It is part 116 of 172 in the work, which is kept in the European tradition.
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