Letter 131 — CXXXI
Original French
Le 9 juillet 1809, à deux heures du matin.
Tout va ici selon mes désirs. Mes ennemis sont défaits, battus, tout à fait en déroute. Ils étaient très nombreux. Je les ai écrasés. Ma santé est bonne aujourd’hui. Hier, j’ai été un peu malade d’un débordement de bile, occasionné par tant de fatigues; mais cela me fait grand bien. Adieu, mon amie, je me porte fort bien.
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.
July 9, 1809, at two in the morning.
Everything here is going as I wish. My enemies are defeated, beaten, utterly routed. They were very numerous. I crushed them. My health is good today. Yesterday I was a little ill from an excess of bile, brought on by so much exertion; but it does me a great deal of good. Farewell, my friend, I am very well.
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.
July 9, 1809, at two in the morning.
Everything here is going as I wish. My enemies have been defeated, beaten, and utterly routed. They were very numerous, but I crushed them. Today my health is good. Yesterday I was a little ill with an overflow of bile brought on by so much exertion, but it has done me a great deal of good. Goodbye, my dear; I am very well.
About this section
Letter 131 — CXXXI 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 131 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.