Letter 025 — XXV
Original French
Vérone, 24 novembre 1796.
J’espère bientôt, ma douce amie, être dans tes bras. Je t’aime à la fureur. J’écris à Paris par ce courrier. Tout va bien. Wurmser a été battu hier sous Mantoue. Il ne manque à ton mari que l’amour de Joséphine pour être heureux.
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 24, 1796.
I hope soon to be in your arms, my sweet friend. I love you to the point of madness. I am writing to Paris by this courier. All is well. Wurmser was beaten yesterday outside Mantua. Your husband lacks only Joséphine's love to be happy.
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 24, 1796.
I hope to be in your arms soon, my sweet friend. I love you madly. I am writing to Paris by this messenger. All is well. Wurmser was defeated yesterday outside Mantua. Your husband needs only Joséphine's love to be happy.
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