Letter 022 — XXII
Original French
Vérone, le 9 novembre 1796.
Je suis arrivé depuis avant-hier à Vérone, ma bonne amie. Quoique fatigué, je suis bien portant, bien affairé, et je t’aime toujours à la passion. Je monte à cheval. Je t’embrasse mille fois.
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.
Verona, November 9, 1796.
I arrived in Verona the day before yesterday, my dear friend. Though tired, I am well, very busy, and still love you passionately. I am mounting my horse. I embrace you a thousand times.
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.
Verona, November 9, 1796.
I reached Verona the day before yesterday, my dear friend. Tired as I am, I am well and very busy, and I love you as passionately as ever. I am getting on horseback. A thousand kisses.
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Letter 022 — XXII 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 22 of 172 in the work, which is kept in the European tradition.
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