Letter 073 — LXXIII
Original French
Posen, le 16 décembre 1806.
Mon amie, je pars pour Varsovie. Dans une quinzaine de jours je serai de retour. J’espère alors que je pourrai t’appeler. Toutefois, si cela était long, je verrais avec plaisir que tu retournasses à Paris, où tu es désirée. Tu sais bien que je dépends des événements.
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 16, 1806.
My friend, I am leaving for Warsaw. In about a fortnight I shall be back. I hope then to be able to call you here. Still, if it takes a long time, I should be glad for you to return to Paris, where you are wanted. You know well that I depend on events.
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 16, 1806.
My friend, I am leaving for Warsaw. I will be back in about two weeks. I hope I can call you here then. However, if it takes a long time, I would be glad to see you return to Paris, where people want you. You know very well that I depend on events.
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