Letter 126 — CXXVI
Original French
Saint-Pœlten, le 9 mai 1809.
Mon amie, je t’écris de Saint-Pœlten. Demain, je serai devant Vienne. Ce sera juste un mois après le même jour où les Autrichiens ont passé l’Inn et violé la paix. Ma santé est fort bonne, le temps superbe, et le soldat fort gai; il y a ici du vin. Porte-toi 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.
Saint-Pœlten, May 9, 1809.
My dear friend, I write to you from Saint-Pœlten. Tomorrow I shall be before Vienna. It will be exactly one month after the day on which the Austrians crossed the Inn and violated the peace. My health is very good, the weather superb, and the soldiers very cheerful; there is wine here. Keep 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.
Saint-Pœlten, May 9, 1809.
My dear, I am writing to you from Saint-Pœlten. Tomorrow I will be outside Vienna. That will be exactly one month to the day since the Austrians crossed the Inn and broke the peace. I am in very good health, the weather is splendid, and the soldiers are very cheerful; there is wine here. Take care of yourself. Entirely yours.
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