Letter 036 — XXXVI
Original French
Louisbourg, le 4 octobre 1805.
Je suis à Louisbourg. Je pars cette nuit. Il n’y a encore rien de nouveau. Ma réunion avec les Bavarois est faite. Je me porte bien. J’espère avoir, dans peu de jours, quelque chose d’intéressant à te mander. Porte-toi bien, et crois à tous mes sentiments. Il y a ici une très belle cour, une nouvelle mariée fort belle et en tout des gens fort aimables; même notre électrice, qui paraît fort bonne, quoique fille du roi d’Angleterre.
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.
Louisbourg, October 4, 1805.
I am at Louisbourg. I leave tonight. There is nothing new yet. I have joined forces with the Bavarians. I am well. I hope in a few days to have something interesting to tell you. Keep well and believe in all my affection. There is a very fine court here, a very beautiful new bride, and altogether very amiable people; even our electress, who seems very good, although she is the daughter of the king of England.
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.
Ludwigsburg, October 4, 1805.
Here I am in Louisbourg; I set out tonight. There is nothing new yet. I have joined up with the Bavarians. I am well, and hope to have something interesting to tell you in a few days. Keep well and be assured of all my affection. The court here is splendid, the new bride very beautiful, and the people generally most agreeable; even our electress seems very kind, though she is the daughter of the King of England.
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Letter 036 — XXXVI 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 36 of 172 in the work, which is kept in the European tradition.
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