Letter 087 — LXXXVII
Original French
Landsberg, le 18 février 1807.
Je t’écris deux mots. Je me porte bien. Je suis en mouvement pour mettre mon armée en quartier d’hiver. Il pleut et dégèle comme au mois d’avril. Nous n’avons pas encore eu une journée froide. Adieu, mon amie, tout à toi.
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.
Landsberg, February 18, 1807.
I write you a few words. I am well. I am on the move to place my army in winter quarters. It rains and thaws as in April. We have not yet had a cold day. Farewell, my dear friend, wholly yours.
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.
Landsberg, February 18, 1807.
I'm writing you a few words. I'm well. I'm on the move to put my army in winter quarters. It's raining and thawing as it does in April. We haven't had a cold day yet. Goodbye, my dear, all yours.
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