Letter 162 — CLXII
Original French
Le 3 février 1810.
J’ai dit à Eugène que tu aimais plutôt à écouter les bavards d’une grande ville que ce que je te disais; qu’il ne faut pas que l’on te fasse des contes en l’air pour t’affliger. J’ai fait transporter tes effets à l’Élysée. Tu viendras incessamment à Paris; mais sois tranquille et contente, et aie confiance entière en moi.
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.
February 3, 1810.
I told Eugène that you preferred listening to the gossips of a great city to what I told you; that people must not tell you idle tales to distress you. I have had your belongings moved to the Élysée. You will come to Paris very soon; but be calm and content, and have complete confidence in me.
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.
February 3, 1810.
I told Eugène that you prefer to listen to the gossips of a great city rather than to what I say, and that people must not distress you with idle tales. I have had your belongings taken to the Élysée. You will come to Paris very soon, but be calm and content and trust me completely.
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