Letter 125 — CXXV
Original French
Le 8 mai 1809.
Mon amie, j’ai reçu ta lettre. La balle qui m’a touché ne m’a pas blessé; elle a à peine rasé le talon d’Achille. Ma santé est fort bonne. Tu as tort de t’inquiéter. Mes affaires ici vont fort bien. 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.
May 8, 1809.
My dear friend, I have received your letter. The bullet that struck me did not wound me; it barely grazed my Achilles heel. My health is very good. You are wrong to worry. My affairs here are going very well. 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.
May 8, 1809.
My friend, I have received your letter. The bullet that hit me did not injure me; it scarcely grazed my Achilles heel. My health is excellent. You are wrong to be anxious. Things are going very well for me here. All yours.
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Letter 125 — CXXV 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 125 of 172 in the work, which is kept in the European tradition.
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