Letter 132 — CXXXII
Original French
Au camp, devant Znaïm, le 13 juillet 1809.
Je t’envoie la suspension d’armes qui a été conclue hier avec le général autrichien. Eugène est du côté de la Hongrie et se porte bien. Envoie une copie de la suspension d’armes à Cambacérès, en cas qu’il ne l’ait pas déjà reçue. Je t’embrasse, et 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.
In camp before Znaïm, July 13, 1809.
I am sending you the armistice concluded yesterday with the Austrian general. Eugène is in the direction of Hungary and is well. Send a copy of the armistice to Cambacérès, in case he has not already received it. I embrace you, and 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.
Camp before Znaïm, July 13, 1809.
I send you the terms of the ceasefire arranged yesterday with the Austrian general. Eugène is near Hungary and in good health. Please forward a copy to Cambacérès, unless he has already received it. I embrace you and am very well.
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