Napoleon's letters to Josephine written on campaign and the impression of their emotional tone
"Ah, you naughty girl! How could you write such a letter! How cold it is! My soul is sad! My heart melts, and my imagination simply frightens me. You love me less strongly. A day will come when you will cease to love me altogether."
I have been reading Napoleon's letters to Josephine, and one has the feeling that he was a parody of himself, at least during the campaigns, when these passionate and emotional letters were written, as though he had been played in life, too, by Zelensky.
Though the words "I kiss your little black wood" were hardly written with the expectation that I should read how he "kisses it a thousand times and impatiently longs to get inside" as soon as possible.
Although I began to squirm already at the moment when he started showing her portrait to every soldier he met and asking: is she not beautiful?
