Napoleon's letters to Joséphine de Beauharnais
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Napoleon Bonaparte to Joséphine de Beauharnais
- I wake filled with thoughts of you. Your portrait and the intoxicating evening which we spent yesterday have left my senses in turmoil.
- Sweet incomparable Josephine, what a strange effect you have on my heart!
- Are you angry?
- Do I see you looking sad? Are you worried? ...
- My soul aches with sorrow, and there can be no rest for your lover; but is there still more in store for me when, yielding to the profound feelings which overwhelm me, I draw from your lips, from your heart a love which consumes me with fire? Ah! it was last night that I fully realized how false an image of you your portrait gives!
- You are leaving at noon; I shall see you in three hours.
- Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire.
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