Letter 122 — CXXII
Original French
Bénavente, le 5 janvier 1809.
Mon amie, je t’écris un mot. Les Anglais sont dans une grande déroute. J’ai chargé le duc de Dalmatie de les poursuivre l’épée dans les reins. Je me porte bien. Le temps est mauvais. Adieu, mon amie;
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.
Bénavente, January 5, 1809.
My dear friend, I write you a word. The English are in full rout. I have charged the Duke of Dalmatia with pursuing them with a sword at their backs. I am well. The weather is bad. Farewell, my dear friend;
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.
Bénavente, January 5, 1809.
My dear, I'm writing you a note. The English are in complete rout. I've ordered the duke of Dalmatia to pursue them with a sword at their backs. I'm well. The weather is bad. Goodbye, my dear;
About this section
Letter 122 — CXXII 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 122 of 172 in the work, which is kept in the European tradition.
Open the work page for the full contents, every edition, and the download links, or go back to Explore to browse other complete works in the European tradition. The reader keeps your place when you are signed in and lets you compare the original with each translation, one edition at a time.