Letter 121 — CXXI
Original French
Le 3 janvier 1809.
Je reçois, mon amie, tes lettres du 18 et du 21. Je poursuis les Anglais l’épée dans les reins. Le temps est froid et rigoureux, mais tout va bien. Adieu, mon amie, tout à toi! Bonne et bien bonne année à ma Joséphine.
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.
January 3, 1809.
I have received, my dear friend, your letters of the 18th and the 21st. I am pursuing the English with a sword at their backs. The weather is cold and severe, but all is well. Farewell, my dear friend, wholly yours! A happy, very happy new year to my Joséphine.
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.
January 3, 1809.
My friend, I have received your letters of the 18th and 21st. I am pursuing the English with my sword at their backs. The weather is bitterly cold, but all is well. Goodbye, my friend, I am yours entirely! A happy, very happy New Year to my Joséphine.
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