Letter 170 — CLXX
Original French
Paris, le 8 janvier 1811.
J’ai reçu ta lettre pour le nouvel an. Je vois avec plaisir que tu es contente. On dit qu’il y a, à Navarre, plus de femmes que d’hommes. Ma santé est fort bonne, quoiqu’il y ait quinze jours que je ne sois sorti. Eugène me paraît sans inquiétude pour sa femme; il te donne un petit garçon. Adieu, mon amie, porte-toi bien.
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.
Paris, January 8, 1811.
I have received your New Year's letter. I am pleased to see that you are content. They say there are more women than men at Navarre. My health is very good, although I have not been out for fifteen days. Eugène seems to me unworried about his wife; he is giving you a little boy. Farewell, my friend, take care of yourself.
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.
Paris, January 8, 1811.
I have received your New Year's letter and am pleased to see you are content. People say that at Navarre the women outnumber the men. I am in excellent health, although I have not gone out for a fortnight. Eugène seems to have no anxiety about his wife; he is giving you a little grandson. Farewell, my dear, keep well.
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