Ancient History 24: The abandonment of Ariadne. Near her vine-trellis on the bank, / She said to herself on that day: / To console me in love / It's time that Bacchus arrived. (Poems of the heart by Miss Fl...)

SKETCHES OF EXPRESSIONS 42: Missus Bonneau!... missus Bonneau!... I love missus Bonneau, me!...you sya,she said to you that I told her!...it's not...true!..

NEWS: THE ANXIETIES OF THE VITICULTURIST. －We've just escaped the frost... we've nothing more to fear except the sun, the rain, vine-mildew and the rest!..

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 48: －They said to the Government that it wasn't progressing, so naturally it got the idea of taking all the railways!... －That's wanting to go too fast!..

NEWS: CHINA CIVILISING HERSELF. －Now then..., attention!... here's the European theory... the eyes looking fifteen paces into the distance and let the foot which is on the ground quickly go to rejoin that which is in the air..

NEWS 73: Pastime that should be forbidden to eminent political persons, because it exposes them to compromise the European balance

TRIVIAL THINGS 6: －Is it to you or to the Gentleman who's your brother that I have the honour of speaking? －It is to my brother, Sir

NEWS 128: Mr. DUPIN IN HIS SMALL SHOES: Seeing that the law on electoral reform will be warmly discussed; Mr. Dupin thought that this was the moment to present himself... to Clamecy

NEWS 128: Mr. DUPIN IN HIS SMALL SHOES: Seeing that the law on electoral reform will be warmly discussed; Mr. Dupin thought that this was the moment to present himself... to Clamecy

THE BACHELOR'S DAY 6: － Without doubt Mr. Riflot the right to petition is sacred, but is abused! witness that which you're talking to us about: to tax bachelors for being useless to the population! I'am angry about it for married people; but it has to be said that of [bachelors] there is no one, more than I Coquelet, who has helped the population

NEWS 88: POOR MR. ROUHER! A VOICE (from the wings)－Come on! you've got to jump. HIM－But i'm going to sink to the bottom!

Affectation 2: I said to myself: do they think we're from the rue des Lombards?... There's a little air about you which is not that of a confectioner at all

The Blue-stockings 11: Take that further away... impossible to work..

MUSICAL SKETCHES 5: A gentleman managing to prove that he is able to sing and play the piano at the same time － which is a great discomfort

News 184: To say that Proudhon does not want..

Strangers in Paris 19: －Look at that imbecile who hasn't seen that his barrel's leaking... －You're stupid! that's done on purpose, it's chloride that they spread over the streets to disinfect them... it's the Labaraque system, applied to the town of Paris

The Blue-stockings 13: － Sir, excuse me if I inconvenience you a little... but you understand that I’m now writing a new novel, and I need to consult a multitude of old authors!... －(The Gentleman, aside) Old authors!... Heavens, she should have consulted them while they were alive, for she must have been their contemporary!..

NEWS 25: － Yes, mister Rifolet, they say that the Cossacks appear to be marching to Constantinople only the better to fool us.. in reality, they're on the way to Paris... personally, I've taken all my precautions, I've already carefully hidden all my packets of candles

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 6: THEATRES IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST. They dream that the auditorium is full to the brim and that they argue over programmes and small seats..., let's not wake them!..

PARISIANS TYPES 30: －My God! Missus Bombec, what hit you? －Don't mention it,dear lady, the horror! the world's become so ferocious that I'd rather be the gatekeeper at the zoo. You know that Bezuchet on the fifth floor who tells everyone that her not-so great daughter, whose filling out nicely round the waist, has become Whatdropical. Me, I just said: oh yeh! －And that's the creature that... －by Jove, flew into my face

Pro-divorce Women 1: ﾐﾑWomen citizens... it is rumoured that divorce is on the point of being denied to us... let us organise ourselves permanently here and declare that the fatherland is in danger!..

The Blue-stockings 12: To think that Arsinoé was not happy to be the sitter for her portrait..

NEWS 145: The Emperor Soulouque, having learned that a European journalist permitted himself to criticise some of the acts of his administration, arrived to sieze the guilty man and plunged him into a cooking pot full of boiling tar －All with the hope that this would serve as a lesson to this hack and that he would not write a second article against his majesty. (Official prefect of Haiti.) (Note from le Charivari) －This ingenious method to curb the deviations of the Press is recommended for the meditation of the Burgraves

MONOMANIACS 5: THE REGULATOR: The word regulator normally applying to a type of machine, may wall also be applied to the individual above. One finds in Paris, said to be the most spiritual town in the most spiritual country in the Universe, several dozen particular men whose sole intellectual occupation is to regulate, each day, their watch on the shot of midday from the canon of the Royal Palace. Here, gunpowder makes those happy who will never set the world on fire

MONOMANIACS 5: THE REGULATOR: The word regulator normally applying to a type of machine, may wall also be applied to the individual above. One finds in Paris, said to be the most spiritual town in the most spiritual country in the Universe, several dozen particular men whose sole intellectual occupation is to regulate, each day, their watch on the shot of midday from the canon of the Royal Palace. Here, gunpowder makes those happy who will never set the world on fire