Letter 128 — CXXVIII
Original French
Schœnbrunn, le 31 mai 1809.
La perte du duc de Montebello, qui est mort ce matin, m’a fort affligé. Ainsi tout finit!… Adieu, mon amie; si tu peux contribuer à consoler la pauvre maréchale, fais-le. 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.
Schönbrunn, May 31, 1809.
The loss of the Duke of Montebello, who died this morning, has grieved me deeply. So everything ends!… Farewell, my dear friend; if you can help console the poor marshal's wife, do so. 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.
Schönbrunn, May 31, 1809.
The Duke of Montebello died this morning, and his loss has caused me great sorrow. So ends everything!… Farewell, my friend; do what you can to comfort the poor marshal’s wife. All yours.
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