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24 September 2022

  • 09:3709:37, 24 September 2022 diff hist +1,642‎ N Talk:CP 02906/en ‎ Created page with "Suggestions... "only out of retrospective curiosity" -> "other than out of respective curiosity"? "I thank you infinitely" -> "Thank you very much"? "steam treatments" -> "fumigations" "live with friends" -> "stay with friends" "Clement-Tonnerres" -> "Clermont-Tonnerres" "and so I could benefit" -> "and then I could benefit" "frighten me" -> "terrify me"? "do you not find, does he not find that it is impossible for him to go back" -> "don't you think, and doesn't..."
  • 08:3608:36, 24 September 2022 diff hist +1,566‎ N Talk:CP 03862/en ‎ Created page with "Suggestions... "When have I since had so many useful things to write to you" -> "When for so long I have had some very helpful things to write to you"? "brochure" -> "booklet" - see note 3, not a brochure but a booklet of Proust's article. "I am not resigned to" -> "and still not resigned to"? "vanity still larger" -> "is an even greater vanity"? "The certain excuse of this" -> "The positive excuse for this"? "I do not doubt that it is not absurd" -> "I've no doubt..."
  • 06:5606:56, 24 September 2022 diff hist +1,967‎ N Talk:CP 03780/en ‎ Created page with "Suggestions... "disheartens" -> include the inverted commas. "I would only want your joy" -> "All I want is for you to be happy"? "You are fixating on language" -> "You are playing with words" or even "You are being semantic"? "Because a publisher, in principle, shares in the duties of printing these books." -> "Because one of the principal duties of a publisher is the printing of his books"? "a director of theatre" -> "a theatre director" "that one can see" -> "im..."
  • 05:2605:26, 24 September 2022 diff hist +835‎ N Talk:CP 02924/en ‎ Created page with "Suggestions... "little Bénac" etc. -> suggest "young Bénac" etc.? Does little sound a bit patronizing and inappropriate? "I learned in the latest news" -> maybe stick to the literal "I learned in the last hour"? "so full of value" -> "so full of bravery"? "he wholly decided to commit and go to the trenches" -> "he insisted upon enlisting and going into the trenches" "But the fortune is worth nothing" -> "But money is meaningless"? "You must remind yourself that w..."

23 September 2022

  • 11:1611:16, 23 September 2022 diff hist +452‎ N Talk:CP 03065/en ‎ Created page with "Suggestions... "physical and spiritual pain" -> "physical and mental pain"? "I make many wishes for you, that" sounds a bit clunky. Voeux could be prayers or hopes. Maybe something less literal such as "you are much in my thoughts/prayers"? You could replace the "that" with "and"? "carrying the same natural beauties" maybe "laden with..." or "bearing the same..."? "a very Romanian “horresco”" -> ""horresco" is very Romanian"? (Yorktaylors)"
  • 10:4810:48, 23 September 2022 diff hist +542‎ N Talk:CP 03098/en ‎ Created page with "Suggestions... "administrator of the North" - this refers to the railway company Chemins de fer du Nord so I wouldn't translate the name of the company. Director is probably better than administrator so "director of the Nord"? "those which were intended for you" should be singular not plural. "this one which was intended for you" (Could he have enclosed the other letter with this one maybe?) "Thousands of affectionate and grateful memories" something less literal woul..."
  • 10:2610:26, 23 September 2022 diff hist +452‎ N Talk:CP 03822/en ‎ Created page with "Suggestions... "sign a copy of my books" -> "sign a single copy of my books" "and will surely receive them" -> "and will definitely receive them" "the Countess of Noailles, the Princess of Chimay, the Princess of Polignac, the Countess Greffulhe" As per the Guidelines aristocratic titles should not be translated. So -> "Comtesse de Noailles" etc. Similarly "place at the feet of the Princess" -> "place at the feet of the Princesse" (Yorktaylors)"

5 July 2022

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7 March 2022

  • 09:0809:08, 7 March 2022 diff hist +1,638‎ N Talk:CP 02892/en ‎ Created page with "Translation reviewed by Moderator with the following suggestions: big sorrows -> great sorrow after the war started. I thought of you in all of these times when the heart gathers, brings close to itself one’s most cherished people. -> and then since the beginning of the war my anguished heart begins to rally, to summon its most cherished people. Your family name was there! -> And that name! I cannot think of nothing but this, and it hurts me, and I wish I could st..." current

11 February 2022

  • 06:1806:18, 11 February 2022 diff hist +301‎ N Talk:CP 02843/en ‎ Created page with "Reviewed by Moderator 11.02.22. Minor suggestions for consideration: "same platitudes return" - "the same platitudes are repeated"? "a decent line written on war" - "a decent line written about the war"? (I'm sure he's referring to that particular war rather than to war in general). [Yorktaylors]" current

9 February 2022

8 February 2022

7 February 2022

  • 11:5211:52, 7 February 2022 diff hist −6‎ CP 02844/en ‎ Created page with "As for those killed in the war they are exemplary, even more than can be expressed. Everything that has been written about poor Psichari, who I didn’t know but I heard so much about, is completely false<ref name="n21" />. And apart from one or two of them, those literary men who now think that they are “serving” through their writing, talk very badly about it all. (There are exceptions - have you read “Les Trois Croix” by Daniel Halévy in the Débats<ref name=..."
  • 11:4011:40, 7 February 2022 diff hist −6‎ Translations:CP 02844/26/en ‎No edit summary
  • 11:3711:37, 7 February 2022 diff hist +2,204‎ CP 02844/en ‎ Created page with "My dear little one, I too was tormented over my brother, his hospital at Étain was bombarded while he was operating, the shells smashing his operating table. He was mentioned in despatches in any case, but not for that, for countless other acts of courage that he never ceases to perform<ref name="n10" />. Unfortunately he is moving forward into the most terrible dangers, and until the end of the war I don’t what news the next day is going to bring me."
  • 11:3611:36, 7 February 2022 diff hist +508‎ Translations:CP 02844/31/en ‎No edit summary current
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  • 10:1610:16, 7 February 2022 diff hist +37‎ N Translations:CP 02844/22/en ‎ Created page with "<ref name="n35" /> <ref name="n36" />" current
  • 10:1510:15, 7 February 2022 diff hist +242‎ N Translations:CP 02844/21/en ‎ Created page with "“Odile”<ref name="n30" /> is also very “Jumilhac"<ref name="n31" /> » as M. Corpechot<ref name="n32" /> would say, also very “Barrès”<ref name="n33" />, but above all must be very nice being as she is your niece<ref name="n34" />."
  • 10:1310:13, 7 February 2022 diff hist +138‎ N Translations:CP 02844/20/en ‎ Created page with "P.S. Hôtel Brunswick seems to be a bit “Boche”<ref name="n28" />. It’s true that Béranger<ref name="n29" /> neutralizes it though." current
  • 10:1210:12, 7 February 2022 diff hist +6‎ N Translations:CP 02844/19/en ‎ Created page with "Marcel" current
  • 10:1210:12, 7 February 2022 diff hist +186‎ N Translations:CP 02844/18/en ‎ Created page with "My dear little one, please present my respectful best wishes at the feet of Madame your mother and Madame your sister, I shall write to your brother. A thousand tender thoughts from your" current
  • 10:1110:11, 7 February 2022 diff hist +927‎ N Translations:CP 02844/17/en ‎ Created page with "My dear little one, I am paralysed with fatigue and I no longer have the strength to give you all the news about Reynaldo. He was at Melun and having asked to be sent East he was sent to Albi, from where however, alas, he will leave for “the trenches” […] Since the start of this war I can’t tell you all the proofs of moral nobility that he has shown. I’m not just talking from the point of view of the war, but even indirectly. […] Truly Reynaldo is a rock of g..."
  • 10:1010:10, 7 February 2022 diff hist +861‎ N Translations:CP 02844/16/en ‎ Created page with "In any case all these men of importance are as ignorant as children. I don’t know if you read an article by General Zurlinden about the origin of the word Boche, which, according to him, only goes back to last September when our soldiers etc<ref name="n23" />. He too must never have talked with anybody who wasn’t of “good family”. Otherwise he would have known as well as me that servants, the common people, have always said: “a head like a Boche”, “he’s a..."
  • 10:0810:08, 7 February 2022 diff hist +648‎ N Translations:CP 02844/15/en ‎ Created page with "As for those killed in the war they are exemplary, even more than can be expressed. Everything that has been written about poor Psichari, who I didn’t know but I heard so much about, is completely false<ref name="n21" />. And apart from one or two of them, those literary men who now think that they are “serving” through their writing, talk very badly about it all. (There are exceptions - have you read “Les Trois Croix” by Daniel Halévy in the Débats<ref name=..." current
  • 10:0610:06, 7 February 2022 diff hist +1,604‎ N Translations:CP 02844/14/en ‎ Created page with "And on this subject, my dear little one, I was utterly stupefied by something I was told: ill-informed as I am about the magnitude and the steady brightness of the new stars that have been shining for some time, I thought I owed a lot of respect towards M. [Z…]<ref name="n20" /> who I have never read, but who I was told possessed some genius. But I was quoted these words of his the other day, which made me sick and that I can’t quite believe are accurate. I am writin..." current
  • 10:0310:03, 7 February 2022 diff hist +368‎ N Translations:CP 02844/13/en ‎ Created page with "My dear little one, everything I have to say to you would fill volumes, and I wanted to reply to you straight away so as not to let myself be “decimated” by this burst of activity towards you if I were to resist. I hope that you don’t have too many of your friends “killed in action”, but one loves even those one does not know, we weep even for the unknown."
  • 10:0210:02, 7 February 2022 diff hist +288‎ N Translations:CP 02844/12/en ‎ Created page with "My dear little one, until my appearance at the review board I shall look after myself, so that I will be able to go to it. But all the same if you come to Paris I will be able to receive you (but I won’t get up). Afterwards, if I’m not “taken”, so much the easier. But I will be."
  • 10:0110:01, 7 February 2022 diff hist +1,304‎ N Translations:CP 02844/11/en ‎ Created page with "As for me I am to go before a medical board and I shall probably be taken, because they take everybody. But I have been stupid because I didn’t need to get myself registered, having been struck off the staff as an officer<ref name="n11" /> and these Boards are only for privates, according to what Clément de Maugny<ref name="n12" /> told me, when he came to see me one evening<ref name="n13" /> as he was passing through Paris; a very nice chap, having much improved, pro..."
  • 09:5209:52, 7 February 2022 diff hist +458‎ N Translations:CP 02844/10/en ‎ Created page with "My dear little one, I too was tormented over my brother, his hospital at Étain was bombarded while he was operating, the shells smashing his operating table. He was mentioned in despatches in any case, but not for that, for countless other acts of courage that he never ceases to perform<ref name="n10" />. Unfortunately he is moving forward into the most terrible dangers, and until the end of the war I don’t what news the next day is going to bring me." current
  • 09:5109:51, 7 February 2022 diff hist +1,459‎ N Translations:CP 02844/9/en ‎ Created page with "My dear little one, I found out a month afterwards that your brother-in-law had suffered an automobile accident, but I had no idea that Léon had been in it and had been seriously injured. Could you ever imagine that I wouldn’t have written to you! So were you too in the motor car? (since you say: I’ve got Léon beside me injured). I am in retrospect very upset to learn this<ref name="n5" />. I shall write to your brother. I was going to do so anyway to tell him of m..."
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  • 09:4609:46, 7 February 2022 diff hist +596‎ N Translations:CP 02844/8/en ‎ Created page with "My dear little one, I don’t know why I’m telling you all this and so stupidly, because through brevity I completely distort my thoughts, which are not the ones you are going to imagine. In a word, my dear little one, besides all this, you haven’t written to me for two months, since the outbreak of war, but truly there has not been <u>a single day</> when I haven’t spent hours of my time with you. My dear little one, you cannot believe how my current affection gra..."
  • 09:4209:42, 7 February 2022 diff hist +799‎ N Translations:CP 02844/7/en ‎ Created page with "Frédéric Masson, whose style in the past I have felt to be that of an old grumbler, is far too much at the present time the embodiment of French “culture”. If he is sincere in finding the Meistersingers inept and inflicted through snobbery, he is more to be pitied than those he declares to be afflicted with “Wagneritis”<ref name="n3" />. If instead of being at war with Germany we had been at war with Russia, what would people have said about Tolstoy and Dostoev..."
  • 09:4109:41, 7 February 2022 diff hist +137‎ N Translations:CP 02844/6/en ‎ Created page with "But all the same had the press, and notably Le Figaro<ref name="n2" />, had better standards then victory would be all the more glorious."
  • 09:3909:39, 7 February 2022 diff hist +567‎ N Translations:CP 02844/5/en ‎ Created page with "If it were not such a joy - as much as we are able to feel any at this time - to receive a letter like yours, and from someone about whom I have never stopped thinking for a single day with ever increasing tenderness, what a relief it is already to read those pages in which there is no mention of “the Boche”, “their Kultur”, “crying like a little child”, “little sister”, nor the rest of it. All things that we can easily tolerate the more we suffer when we..."
  • 09:3709:37, 7 February 2022 diff hist +19‎ N Translations:CP 02844/4/en ‎ Created page with "My dear little one," current
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