Letter 071 — LXXI
Original French
Posen, le 10 décembre 1806.
Un officier m’apporte un tapis de ta part; il est un peu court et étroit; je ne t’en remercie pas moins. Je me porte assez bien. Le temps est fort variable. Mes affaires vont assez bien. Je t’aime et te désire beaucoup. Adieu, mon amie; je t’écrirai de venir avec au moins autant de plaisir que tu viendras.
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, December 10, 1806.
An officer brings me a rug from you; it is a little short and narrow; I thank you no less for it. I am fairly well. The weather is very changeable. My affairs are going fairly well. I love and long for you very much. Goodbye, my friend; I shall write for you to come with at least as much pleasure as you will take in coming.
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, December 10, 1806.
An officer has brought me a carpet from you. It is a little short and narrow, but I thank you just the same. I am fairly well, and the weather changes a great deal. My affairs are going reasonably well. I love you and long for you very much. Goodbye, my friend. When I write to tell you to come, I shall take at least as much pleasure in it as you will in coming.
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