Letter 061 — LXI
Original French
Berlin, le 1er novembre 1806.
Talleyrand arrive, et me dit, mon amie, que tu ne fais que pleurer. Que veux-tu donc? Tu as ta fille, tes petits-enfants et de bonnes nouvelles; voilà bien des moyens d’être contente et heureuse. Le temps est ici superbe; il n’a pas encore tombé de toute la campagne une seule goutte d’eau. Je me porte fort bien, et tout va au mieux. Adieu, mon amie, j’ai reçu une lettre de M. Napoléon; je ne crois pas qu’elle soit de lui, mais d’Hortense. Mille choses à tout le monde.
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.
Berlin, November 1, 1806.
Talleyrand has arrived and tells me, my friend, that you do nothing but weep. What more do you want? You have your daughter, your grandchildren, and good news; those are ample means of being content and happy. The weather here is magnificent; not a single drop of rain has fallen during the whole campaign. I am very well, and everything is going as well as possible. Goodbye, my friend, I have received a letter from M. Napoléon; I do not believe it is from him, but from Hortense. A thousand kind thoughts to everyone.
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.
Berlin, November 1, 1806.
Talleyrand has just arrived, my friend, and tells me you spend all your time weeping. What is it you want? With your daughter, your grandchildren and good news, you have plenty to make you happy and content. The weather here is wonderful. Not one drop of rain has fallen during the whole campaign so far. I am keeping very well, and everything could not be better. Goodbye, my friend. I have received a letter from M. Napoléon; I think it is from Hortense rather than him. Many good wishes to everyone.
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Letter 061 — LXI 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 61 of 172 in the work, which is kept in the European tradition.
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