Letter 067 — LXVII
Original French
Posen, le 28 novembre 1806.
Je suis à Posen, capitale de la grande Pologne. Le froid commence; je me porte bien. Je vais faire une tournée en Pologne. Mes troupes sont aux portes de Varsovie. Adieu, mon amie, mille choses aimables. Je t’embrasse de cœur.
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.
Posen, November 28, 1806.
I am at Posen, capital of Greater Poland. The cold is beginning; I am well. I am going to make a tour of Poland. My troops are at the gates of Warsaw. Goodbye, my friend, a thousand kind thoughts. I embrace you with all my heart.
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.
Posen, November 28, 1806.
Here I am at Posen, capital of Greater Poland. Cold weather is beginning, and I am well. I am going to travel around Poland. My troops have reached the gates of Warsaw. Farewell, my friend, a thousand kind wishes. I embrace you from my heart.
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