Letter 141 — CXLI
Original French
Nymphenbourg, près Munich, le 21 octobre 1809.
Je suis ici depuis hier bien portant; je ne partirai pas encore demain. Je m’arrêterai un jour à Stuttgard. Tu seras prévenue vingt-quatre heures d’avance de mon arrivée à Fontainebleau. Je me fais une fête de te revoir, et j’attends ce moment avec impatience. Je t’embrasse. 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.
Nymphenbourg, near Munich, October 21, 1809.
I have been here since yesterday and am well; I shall not leave tomorrow either. I shall stop for a day at Stuttgard. You will be notified twenty-four hours before my arrival at Fontainebleau. I look forward to seeing you again with delight, and await that moment impatiently. I embrace you. 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.
Nymphenbourg, near Munich, October 21, 1809.
I have been here since yesterday and am well. I will not leave tomorrow either. I will stop for one day at Stuttgard. You will be told twenty-four hours before I arrive at Fontainebleau. I am looking forward to seeing you again, and I can hardly wait for that moment. I kiss you. All yours.
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