Letter 145 — CXLV
Original French
Mardi, à six heures. (Trianon, 19 décembre 1809.)
La reine de Naples, que j’ai vue à la chasse au bois de Boulogne, où j’ai forcé un cerf, m’a dit qu’elle t’avait laissée hier, à une heure de l’après-midi, bien portante. Je te prie de me dire ce que tu as fait aujourd’hui. Moi, je me porte fort bien. Hier, quand je t’ai vue, j’étais malade. Je pense que tu auras été te promener. Adieu, mon amie.
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.
Tuesday, at six. (Trianon, December 19, 1809.)
The Queen of Naples, whom I saw hunting in the Bois de Boulogne, where I ran a stag to ground, told me she had left you yesterday at one in the afternoon in good health. Please tell me what you have done today. As for me, I am very well. Yesterday, when I saw you, I was ill. I expect you will have gone out for a walk. Farewell, my friend.
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.
Tuesday at six. (Trianon, December 19, 1809.)
I saw the Queen of Naples while hunting in the Bois de Boulogne, where I ran down a stag. She told me she had left you well at one o'clock yesterday afternoon. Please let me know what you have been doing today. As for me, I am very well. I was ill yesterday when I saw you. I expect you have been for a walk. Farewell, my dear.
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Letter 145 — CXLV 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 145 of 172 in the work, which is kept in the European tradition.
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