Letter 094 — XCIV
Original French
Finkestein, le 2 avril 1807.
Mon amie, je t’écris un mot. Je viens de porter mon quartier-général dans un très beau château, dans le genre de celui de Bessières, où j’ai beaucoup de cheminées; ce qui m’est fort agréable, me levant souvent la nuit; j’aime à voir le feu. Ma santé est parfaite. Le temps est beau, mais encore froid. Le thermomètre est de quatre à cinq degrés. 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.
Finkestein, April 2, 1807.
My dear friend, I write you a word. I have just moved my headquarters to a very beautiful château, like Bessières's, where I have many fireplaces; this delights me, since I often rise at night; I love to watch the fire. My health is perfect. The weather is fine, but still cold. The thermometer is at four to five degrees. 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.
Finkestein, April 2, 1807.
My dear, just a note. I have moved my headquarters to a very fine castle, rather like Bessières's, with plenty of fireplaces. That suits me well, as I often get up at night and like to see a fire. My health is perfect. The weather is fine, though still cold. The thermometer reads four to five degrees. Goodbye, my dear. Entirely yours.
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Letter 094 — XCIV is part of Letters to Josephine by Napoléon Bonaparte. This page sets the French original beside 2 direct-source translations, so any line can be checked against the source. It is part 94 of 172 in the work, which is kept in the European tradition.
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