A letter written in English by Napoleon is about to hit the auction block.
From a piece in the Independent...
He may have conquered most of Europe but the Emperor Napoleon never quite managed to conquer the language of the nation of shopkeepers.
One of only three surviving letters written in English by Napoleon while exiled on the island of Saint Helena will be auctioned this weekend. The note, written in March 1816 as an exercise for his companion and secret English teacher, Emmanuel de Las Cases, is scarcely intelligible.
The emperor begins: "Count Las Case. It is two o'clock after midnight. I have enow sleep, I go then finish the night into cause with you..."
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