Letter 160 — CLX
Original French
Le 30 janvier 1810.
Mon amie, je reçois ta lettre. J’espère que la promenade que tu as faite aujourd’hui pour montrer ta serre, t’aura fait du bien. Je te saurai avec plaisir à l’Élysée, et fort heureux de te voir plus souvent, car tu sais combien je t’aime.
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.
January 30, 1810.
My friend, I have received your letter. I hope that the walk you took today to show your greenhouse will have done you good. I shall be glad to know you are at the Élysée, and very happy to see you more often, for you know how much I love you.
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.
January 30, 1810.
My dear, your letter has arrived. I hope that the outing you took today to show your greenhouse has done you good. It will please me to know you are at the Élysée, and I shall be delighted to see you more frequently, since you know how much I love you.
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