Letter 064 — LXIV
Original French
Berlin, le 22 novembre 1806.
Sois contente, heureuse de mon amitié, de tout ce que tu m’inspires. Je me déciderai dans quelques jours à t’appeler ici, ou à t’envoyer à Paris. Adieu, mon amie; tu peux actuellement aller, si tu veux, à Darmstadt, à Francfort; cela te dissipera. Mille choses à Hortense.
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 22, 1806.
Be content, happy in my affection, in all that you inspire in me. In a few days I shall decide whether to call you here or send you to Paris. Goodbye, my friend; you may now go, if you wish, to Darmstadt and Frankfurt; it will divert you. A thousand kind thoughts to Hortense.
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 22, 1806.
Find contentment and happiness in my affection and all the feelings you inspire in me. Within a few days I shall decide whether to summon you here or send you back to Paris. Farewell, my friend; you may now visit Darmstadt and Frankfurt if you like, as a diversion. A thousand good wishes to Hortense.
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Letter 064 — LXIV 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 64 of 172 in the work, which is kept in the European tradition.
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