Letter 009 — IX
Original French
Roverbella, 6 juillet 1796.
J’ai battu l’ennemi. Kilmaine t’enverra la copie de la relation. Je suis mort de fatigue. Je te prie de partir tout de suite pour te rendre à Vérone; j’ai besoin de toi, car je crois que je vais être bien malade. Je te donne mille baisers. Je suis au lit.
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.
Roverbella, July 6, 1796.
I have beaten the enemy. Kilmaine will send you a copy of the report. I am dead with fatigue. Please leave at once for Verona; I need you, for I believe I am going to be very ill. I give you a thousand kisses. I am in bed.
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.
Roverbella, July 6, 1796.
The enemy has been beaten. Kilmaine will send you a copy of the account. I am exhausted to death. Please set out for Verona at once; I need you, for I think I am going to be very ill. I send you a thousand kisses. I am in bed.
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