Letter 127 — CXXVII
Original French
Schœnbrunn, le 12 mai 1809.
Je t’expédie le frère de la duchesse de Montebello pour t’apprendre que je suis maître de Vienne, et que tout va ici parfaitement. Ma santé est fort bonne.
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.
Schönbrunn, May 12, 1809.
I am sending you the brother of the Duchess of Montebello to tell you that I am master of Vienna, and that everything here is going perfectly. My health is very good.
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.
Schönbrunn, May 12, 1809.
I am sending the Duchess of Montebello's brother to tell you that Vienna is in my hands and everything here is going perfectly. I am in very good health.
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Letter 127 — CXXVII 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 127 of 172 in the work, which is kept in the European tradition.
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