Celebrrrrrrated Painting Jury: composed of a Composer, an Astronomer, a Mathematician, several Architects and a Chemist. － The Chemist (yawning)... in... the... fi... nal... an...alysis..., and because on the painting Jury there is no Painter! What if we went to dinner

Caricatures of the Day 90: An advertisement for a concert

Ancient History 43: Œdipus at the Spinx's. This ugly animal with the head of an antiquary, / Said to him: Why, Sir, can you not count / On a pyramid? Then without hesitation / Œdipus replied: It's because they are near Cairo? You can be grateful for an old pun (Lesson by Mr. Raoul-Rochette)

NEWS 24: － What... the paper says that it's rumoured in the Stock-Exchange that the Russians have crossed the Prut!... － Well! Mister Panelet... all the same... because the Russians have begun hostilities that's no reason for you not to finish off shaving

CHARIVARI SKETCHES or DISCORDANT SKETCHES 2: －I say, President, it's impossible to catch a hare this year... they won't stay still... －That's because the government forgot to make them immovable..

PARISIAN MEN IN 1852. 1: The new Talma cape, thus named because it gives to him who wears it an utterly comic appearance

People gathering at an Etiopian Orthodox church. The man carrying a gun is possibily a militiaman

Sketch Taken at the Salon by Daumier: A fantastic painter: － See, look how I visualise the apotheosis of a martyr... － But I can make out only the legs of your figure. －The head's already in the sky... that proves he's a saint!..

A New Series of Thirty-Two Physiognomies

A New Series of Thirty-Two Physiognomies

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 100: A FILIAL HOMMAGE: Yes, it's Leonidas... it's certainly Leonidas...(The happy father deems it necessary to become tender because he recognises Leonidas.)

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 1: THE SELLER OF SECURITY [WATCH] CHAINS: The security [watch] chain is so called because it is a secure means of knowing that the ninny who buys it owns a watch. Accomplices stationed in the vicinity are not slow to turn this sign to a profit. Bertrand sold the chain, Macaire deals with the watch

MONOMANIACS 3: THE EXPERT: There are Experts and Experts, as there are Uncouth Peolple and Uncouth People. Firtly [there is] the Expert who knows (this is the rarest type); then the Expert who knows nothing, or knows stupid and useless things, that is to say, less than nothing. The Expert of these different categories passes for a profound, serious man; he is in a very good position, and makes a reputation in the world, like all who are hollow. He passes his days full of pleasures and free from failings, except that he is subject to the Cross of Honoour and the Academy

MONOMANIACS 3: THE EXPERT: There are Experts and Experts, as there are Uncouth Peolple and Uncouth People. Firtly [there is] the Expert who knows (this is the rarest type); then the Expert who knows nothing, or knows stupid and useless things, that is to say, less than nothing. The Expert of these different categories passes for a profound, serious man; he is in a very good position, and makes a reputation in the world, like all who are hollow. He passes his days full of pleasures and free from failings, except that he is subject to the Cross of Honoour and the Academy

Ancient History 30: Dionysius the tyrant. If he chooses this condition in his sorry fortune, / It is because in the matter of schools / Tyrants always make too much of it, / So that they can fine one [school] in their old age (The late Barthelemy)

NEWS 31: － What a selfish man!... sleeping when at this very moment the Autocrat raises soldiers!..

Parisian Boating Men 14: A man in to the sea: －Harpoon him more vigorously... we won’t get him without! －And you, hold his legs in the air, that’s the important thing!... nothing gives you a cold more than getting the soles of your feet wet!..

ﾑHere... I fancy I see over there an Austrian general who's got a plucky horse... must make a present of it to the colonel tomorrow!...

PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 8: Below the upper vignette: A cabriolet bearing an unfortunate resemblance; Below the lower vignette: After the meeting, Auguste and Arthur stop being serious politicians and become again foolish young people..

PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 8: Below the upper vignette: A cabriolet bearing an unfortunate resemblance; Below the lower vignette: After the meeting, Auguste and Arthur stop being serious politicians and become again foolish young people..

SKETCHES BY DAUMIER 3: －Your client is a scoundrel who's murdered six women, and you're counting on extenuating circumstances. －Why of course!... the jury is composed entirely of married men

Conjugal Manners 26: Eh, Eh! little rascal, you will make brats, you already have the eyes of a scoundrel! You'll be like your father

Friends 4: Madame Cabassol goes for a sentimental walk in the Jardin des Plantes[?] with the youngest friend of her husband. An unforeseen meeting with the latter, not far from a deer

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 87: THE LADY WHO CULTIVATES THE ARTS: The gentlemen in chorus. It's charming...It's chaarming... It's chaaahhhming!..

PRACTICES OF THE MERCHANTS OF PARIS 6: She does make a fuss, that stuck up woman from the fifth floor, Wearing a hat! and two cups of milk for a sou! Damnation! Ma Capitaine, it's because we've got visitors this morning