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Show LOVE LETTER OF NAPOLEON Hitherto Unknown Missive Told Young Wife of His Affection. PARIS. Jan. 7 A love lrtler of Napoleon Donaiinne. hitherto unknown, wiui old In Berlin some weeks ago for 3137f mNiut $17) The purchaser a a German, anil there It Fomi outcry hnrc becauso It Is not to enrich a French collection. Letter a Unique One The letter seems to he unique among those of Napoleon that ho. e been pobllshed It waj Written at an early sta(f of his career of glory, on the day after the battle of Arcole SJtd the Very v' Of that of RVOll. It breathe the lender hart -throb of the rounR husband llllOBe beautiful wlfo Is far away, and reveals between the lines on Implicit faith In hr fidelity, which, as history shows, was Pjo lil-reQulted. lil-reQulted. vVrote in Gushing Terms. Purine his campaign In Egypt. B-maparte'e dlsllluilcnment cajnn. 11" was told how Josephine Jo-sephine waa spending the time nf his absence In the company at another Tho fon of Josephine, Jo-sephine, Eujjcne de Peauharnals. was th tlrt to inform tier thai BonapSJtO knew the IruMi But e.n In his earliest cajiipalsm after their mnrrlPRe Josephine hail rfusei to leave Paris for hla sik and It was In spit of this fact that th yc.une: conqueror wr.Mc to her In the rather "pushing-' terms of this letter: What He Said. "I am about to retlro to my conch, my little JoKi-phlne, with my heart full of your adorable ImaK". and crushed with pain at remaining" re-maining" so loner from you; hut I hopo that. In a few Hays. I elm II he moro blrssel, and shall be able without constraint to give you proofs of the nrdent love that you havo Inspired In-spired n me. You write to m no mure; you think no longer of your own good friend Truel woman' Do you not knw that, without you. without your heart, your love, there Is for FOIH hUSbSad neither repo.o. nor happiness not life-- M- ijod' how happy could I be If I could be with yc'U j am all yours 1-lfe. happiness, pleasure ore for m only w hm you make them " Declare Missive Genuine. Ir. th original, of course, the fomlllor thee" and 'thou" are employed, which In on ITngllsh rendering would se-ni awkward Several Sev-eral French experts In Napoleonic relies have examined the letter and declare it genuine |