No. 72 May 24th — Dantzic Surrenders to Lefebvre After Two Months’ Siege, With 800 Guns and Immense Stores
To the Empress, at Lacken.
Finckenstein, May 24, 1807.
Your letter from Lacken just received. I am sorry to see your grief undiminished, and that Hortense has not yet come; she is unreasonable, and does not deserve our love, since she only loves her children.
Try to calm her, and do not make me wretched. For every ill without a remedy consolations must be found.
Adieu, dear.—Yours ever,
Napoleon.