Letter 147 — CXLVII
Original French
Jeudi, à midi. (Trianon, le 21 décembre 1809.)
Je voulais venir te voir aujourd’hui, mon amie; mais je suis très occupé et un peu indisposé. Je vais cependant aller au conseil. Je te prie de me dire comment tu te portes. Ce temps est bien humide et pas du tout sain.
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.
Thursday, at noon. (Trianon, December 21, 1809.)
I wanted to come and see you today, my friend, but I am very busy and a little unwell. I shall nevertheless go to the council. Please tell me how you are. This weather is very damp and not at all healthy.
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.
Thursday at noon. (Trianon, December 21, 1809.)
I wanted to visit you today, my dear, but I am extremely busy and slightly indisposed. Even so, I am going to the council. Please let me know how you are feeling. The weather is terribly damp and quite unhealthy.
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