Letter 052 — LII
Original French
Brunn, le 19 décembre 1805.
Grande impératrice, pas une lettre de vous depuis votre départ de Strasbourg. Vous avez passé à Bade, à Stuttgard, à Munich, sans nous écrire un mot. Ce n’est pas bien aimable, ni bien tendre! Je suis toujours à Brunn. Les Russes sont partis, j’ai une trève. Dans peu de jours, je verrai ce que je deviendrai. Daignez, du haut de vos grandeurs, vous occuper un peu de vos esclaves.
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.
Brunn, December 19, 1805.
Great Empress, not a letter from you since your departure from Strasbourg. You have passed through Baden, Stuttgard, and Munich without writing us a word. That is neither very kind nor very tender! I am still at Brunn. The Russians have left; I have a truce. In a few days I shall see what is to become of me. Deign, from the heights of your greatness, to give a little thought to your slaves.
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.
Brunn, December 19, 1805.
Great Empress, since your departure from Strasbourg you have not sent one letter. You went through Baden, Stuttgart and Munich without a word to us. That is hardly kind or tender! I remain at Brunn. The Russians have left, and I have a truce. A few days from now I shall see what becomes of me. From your exalted heights, condescend to spare a little thought for your slaves.
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Letter 052 — LII 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 52 of 172 in the work, which is kept in the European tradition.
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