Letter 066 — LXVI
Original French
Meseritz, le 27 novembre 1806.
Je vais faire un tour en Pologne; c’est ici la première ville. Je serai ce soir à Posen, après quoi je t’appellerai à Berlin, afin que tu y arrives le même jour que moi. Ma santé est bonne, le temps un peu mauvais; il pleut depuis trois jours. Mes affaires vont bien. Les Russes fuient.
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.
Meseritz, November 27, 1806.
I am going to make a tour of Poland; this is the first town. I shall be at Posen tonight, after which I shall call you to Berlin, so that you arrive there on the same day as I do. My health is good, the weather a little bad; it has been raining for three days. My affairs are going well. The Russians are fleeing.
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.
Meseritz, November 27, 1806.
I am about to make a tour through Poland; this is the first town. This evening I shall reach Posen, and afterwards I shall send for you to Berlin, so that we arrive there on the same day. I am in good health, though the weather is a little bad: it has been raining for three days. My affairs prosper. The Russians are running away.
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