Ancient History 28: Hannibal's passage. In these frowning mountains whose snowy crest / Is like a giant's hoary brow, / Triumphant Hannibal, in order to make himself a path / Puts the Alps in vinaigrette (The Occidentals of Mr. Quinet)

A Twisted Frame in a Square Frame

NEWS 3: A DECEMBRUISED: －Well!... it seems that the neighbour will also have found himself somewhere along the President of the Republic's passage!

NEWS 3: A DECEMBRUISED: －Well!... it seems that the neighbour will also have found himself somewhere along the President of the Republic's passage!

THESE GOOD PARISIANS 13: THE PARISIAN － Tell me, worthy fellow, what do you do with all your cows when they become old and no longer give milk?... THE COW-HERD － Look here,... the tomfoolery.. you make beef out of them!..

Angling 5: Woe to the Angler with rod and line who finds himself in the way of a steam boat!

Ancient History 26: The Augean stables. For a proud hero to make of himself a cleaner, / Is, for Hercules, difficult to swallow, / But as a proverb says: / One does not argue about sewers or colours (Unpublished pun by Mr. Delessert)

Ancient History 26: The Augean stables. For a proud hero to make of himself a cleaner, / Is, for Hercules, difficult to swallow, / But as a proverb says: / One does not argue about sewers or colours (Unpublished pun by Mr. Delessert)

Strangers in Paris 3: What is called dining in a restaurant: －Waiter!...I've been in your establishment for an hour and a quarter without having a chair...and you've still only given the tooth-picks to my wife who's dying of hunger... you'll make me lose my normal posture, and I'll end up with my feet in the dish... do you understand, waiter! －There now, Sir... there there now, there there!!!

NEWS 14: The emotion of Doctor Véron, believing himself to be pursued by an enraged dog

[すい神のおしえにいのちたすかりて]

広報ひらつか ふるえていた少年の手

TRIVIAL THINGS 2: Blast it! they're happier than thier master,these blackguardly boots!...they're drinking!..

News 186: It’s annoying to brush these things..

The Good Bourgeois 3: So! What do you think of me in my new uniform...I think I ought to have a fairly stylish little look!..

The Good Bourgeois 3: So! What do you think of me in my new uniform...I think I ought to have a fairly stylish little look!..

IN CHINA 8: －To think that in France, I had so much trouble in getting one of them, and here, here I am with two on my arm... what a swanky place!..

[NEWS 138]: － My dear..., do come and look at these pretty diamonds!... － Don't look at that.., foolish woman!... it'll make you squint!!..

PARISIAN IN 1848. 1: －Well... I didn't recognise you... what moustaches!... －It's necessary... I've been made a corporal..

Conjugal Manners 37: The well of Grenelle. And these rogues of chemists who say that it does some good to bathe children in the well of Grenelle; here's poor Dodophe who's gone greener than an apple; I don't know whether my son's a lizard or a toad!!

Conjugal Manners 38: ﾐﾐ Oh! You think your wife doesn't look after you well enough, you rogue; when you spend everything, scoundrel!...Well, I'll make myself kiss-curls, rascal!... and I'll buy bonnets... and I'll make you eat corks, rascal... ﾐﾐ My angel, I'm wrong, you are a good housewife...but you're breaking everything

Caricaturana 48: A candidate: Whom do you need?... A man of probity, conscientious, a serious man, a manufacturer, a man who doesn't need the government in order to become rich, a man familiar with the law, who knows it well, from experience, from long experience... A long experience of the law... You couldn't make a better choice, take my... take my honourable friend

THE FEASTERS 4: Rifolaed was more charmed than ever at not having got himself killed in the June days, for that would have deprived him of the pleasure of walking in the streets of Boulogne under a rain of flowers

THE FEASTERS 4: Rifolaed was more charmed than ever at not having got himself killed in the June days, for that would have deprived him of the pleasure of walking in the streets of Boulogne under a rain of flowers

Ancient History 38: Mars and Venus. In this erotic snare / Seeing these lovers, all the gods were taken / By that famous Homeric laughter, / Reserved since that time for unfortunate husbands (Familiar quatrain by Mr. A...)