Letter 137 — CXXXVII
Original French
Schœnbrunn, le 31 août 1809.
Je n’ai pas reçu de lettres de toi depuis plusieurs jours; les plaisirs de Malmaison, les belles serres, les beaux jardins font oublier les absents; c’est la règle, dit-on, chez vous autres. Tout le monde ne parle que de ta bonne santé, tout cela m’est fort sujet à caution. Je vais demain faire une absence de deux jours en Hongrie, avec Eugène. Adieu, mon amie. 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, August 31, 1809.
I have received no letters from you for several days; the pleasures of Malmaison, the fine greenhouses, the lovely gardens make one forget the absent; that is the rule, they say, among people like you. Everyone speaks only of your good health; I am very doubtful of it all. Tomorrow I leave for a two-day trip to Hungary with Eugène. Farewell, my friend. All 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, August 31, 1809.
I have had no letters from you for several days. The pleasures of Malmaison, its fine greenhouses and gardens, make you forget those who are away; that, they say, is the rule among people like you. Everyone talks about your good health, but I have serious doubts about all that. Tomorrow Eugène and I are going to Hungary for two days. Goodbye, my dear. All yours.
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