NEWS 19: The enemy of dogs having had the imprudence to leave Auteuil in order to come and walk in Paris

MEMORIES OF THE PEACE CONGRESS 4: Having finished their work, and having, through three days of speeches, definitively guaranteed world peace, the Congress members of St. Cecilia's room decide to take a triumphal, but peaceable, walk in the Paris streets!

MEMORIES OF THE PEACE CONGRESS 4: Having finished their work, and having, through three days of speeches, definitively guaranteed world peace, the Congress members of St. Cecilia's room decide to take a triumphal, but peaceable, walk in the Paris streets!

NEWS 106: － Miss prud'homme [sic], I have learnt that the English are going to come again to contend for the Paris grand prix, my patriotism makes it a duty for me to prepare for the struggle

NEWS 661: That which will bring our deputies back to Paris, in spite of themselves

NEWS 661: That which will bring our deputies back to Paris, in spite of themselves

NEWS 18: All the Parisian women who own dogs are following the example given to them by Madam de Saint Frémont and are coming to withdraw their subscription to the Constitutionnel

NEWS 299: IN A GARDEN AT AUTEUIL: Becoming more and more misanthropic as a result of his political vexations and wishing to flee the world completely, doctor Véron withdrew to the bottom of his cravat

Strangers in Paris 2: The indispensable visit to the tailor of the Palais Royal

NEWS 45: ABDUCTION OF A GIRL-SPIRIT OF THE AIR. － Come, come, Mr. Godard, I'm frozen, let me into the gondola... － That's impossible, since we'll be seen by Paris... － But I've got a frightful head-cold!... － All I can promise is to wipe your nose, as soon as we get into a cloud!..

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

NEWS 385: An indispensable procaution which Parisians take when they leave their homes, even in broad daylight, since they have been told by Mr. Babinet that the sun might be extinguished from ome moment to the next

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

NEWS 203: Casmajou－ I think that the time has come to claim as the price for my devotion the reward of a frock-coat! Ratapoil－ Well, now, do you think my boots leave nothing to be desired in connection with the sole! (Together)(in chorus)－ Oh, the ingratitude of Governments!

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!!!

JOURNEY TO CHINA 9: A CHINESE DANCE.One is greatly mistaken if one believes the Chinese people to be giddy, joyful and the friend of pleasure: they are on the contrary serious and morose, since their greatest amusement consists in a type of lugubrious walking in which the men and women walk one in front of the other, or one beside the other, and seem to be saying among themselves: brother we should die! In order also to point to the philosophical intention behind this ceremony, the opposite of dancing, they call it: Counter-dancing

Album des Charges du Jour: AT TANGIER －Sublime Majesty!... here come the Spaniards..., I think of anticipating your wishes, in order to inspire them with respect..., to unfurl your august parasol!... －Do not pester me, Belboul, about my parasol... at this very moment I would prefer to have a Bullet-shield!..

Album des Charges du Jour: AT TANGIER －Sublime Majesty!... here come the Spaniards..., I think of anticipating your wishes, in order to inspire them with respect..., to unfurl your august parasol!... －Do not pester me, Belboul, about my parasol... at this very moment I would prefer to have a Bullet-shield!..

Strangers in Paris 11: A little trip by omnibus: －Are you going to the exhibition?... －Yes, Sir... look at our notice yourself... at the faubourg St. Jacques you take a connecting [omnibus] which takes you to the Jardin des Plantes... from there you go to Belleville from where they take you directly to the Champs-Élysées

Strangers in Paris 5: An obliging guide: －Excuse me, Sir... do you know the most direct route to go to la Bourse? －Certainly, with the greatest pleasure... please come this way... you take the left side... follow it all the way along... and la bourse[sic] is there... right at the tip of my finger!..

THE TEMPTATION OF THE NEW St. ANTHONY: In that particular time, a great and fat sinner named Véron felt himself touched by grace: having reflected that the Press was a priesthood, he became a hermit and retired to a wild place in the midst of the steepest mountains of Montmartre. There, he spent his days and nights in prayer, and as a means of mortification, imposed upon himself as a penitence the continual re-reading of the list of subscribers to the Constitutionnel. －For his only food, Véron took at long intervals a light fragment of Regnauld pâté. －The Devil, irritated by this edifying yet unexpected conversion employed different strategies to make St. Véron succumb to his temptations, but our noble coenobite knew how to resist those things which until recently had held so many charms for him: Satan, who had taken the form of the Constitutionnel in order come in person to tempt St. Véron, returned to the road for Paris, furious. －The anchorite of Montmartre has, since this time, been placed in the rank of the greatest saints which Parisian journalism honours, and is especially supplicated by the unfortunates who have a head cold

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 15: THE OLD ROUÉE: So I'm going to be a door-keeper in the rue du Mont-Blanc in a large house where my husband says they'll call us porters. So I'm going to leave this ramshackle place where there're only four tenants who give me five sous apiece for a New Year's present... Scum!!!..

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 22: THE CLOTHES SELLER: “Closes to sell!... any hats, shoes, old clothes to sell!” This trade fourishes at carnival time in the vicinity of the schools of law and medicine: the student willingly sells his wardrobe to get himself a stevedore's costume, a wife, a small thimble-full of champagne and limitless tittle-tattle!

Parisian Emotions 1: Aren't they dreary!... see how they make off!... what it is not to live in property!!!... My little loves, when you come by again we should warn you, we'll burn pastilles from the Seraglio for you..

PARLIAMENTARY IDYLLS 4: FLORA AND ZEPHYR (DE LA MEURTHE.): Lightly he balances himself / On a foot barely skimming the water's surface:/ Flora who admires him in silence / Says to herself. / Ah! God damn it all, how beautiful he is! (Translated from Anacreon by Ratapoil, retired police colonel, member of Châlons sur Marne society of literature and of the society of the Tenth-of-December in Paris)