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)

NEWS 6: RATAPOIL and CASMAJOU: The most active members of the philanthropic society of the tenth of December: the portraits drawn from nature, and truly striking

NEWS 6: RATAPOIL and CASMAJOU: The most active members of the philanthropic society of the tenth of December: the portraits drawn from nature, and truly striking

The Blue-stockings 21: Goodbye my dear Flora... Don’t forget..

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!

MONOMANIACS 4: THE AMATEUR GUITARIST: Defying the immense yawn / Wich he elicits by singing his verses / He will sing a ballad / About the remnants of the universe..

NEWS 35: EX-MEMBERS OF THE EX-SOCIETY OF THE EX-TENTH-OF-DECEMBER: －To be forced to drink beer when they paid for such good wine for us!..

PARLIAMENTARY IDYLLS 12: Cupid, a shrewd god, but full of vanity, / Bounds upon the table at the risk of a sprain, / In order to prove that his figure is wholly beautiful, / Between the two candlesticks he shows them his torso!

PARLIAMENTARY IDYLLS 1: THE HARVEST: As by your efforts the piled sheaves / Raise the pyramid with pointed top,/ Clyto, the housewife of calm and gentle bearing,/ Steeps the cabbage soup in the earthenware amphora (The Georgics, inedited translation by Mr. Ponsard)

THE FEASTERS 1: The national guardsman Rifolard, not having left his home during the five days of June, was unable to resist the desire finally to seize the occasion of showing himself; despite the tears of his wife and children, he took his gun to hasten to a banquet in the country

THE FEASTERS 1: The national guardsman Rifolard, not having left his home during the five days of June, was unable to resist the desire finally to seize the occasion of showing himself; despite the tears of his wife and children, he took his gun to hasten to a banquet in the country

French Types 11: The Restaurant owner: This Gentleman who wipes the tables, arranges the stools, greets everyone and gravely walks about with a serviette in his hand, he is the master of the establishment. He has from Fifteen to Fifty thousand pounds revenue... How much has Châteaubriant ?..

NEWS 189: John Bull swears that he is attached to the son of Theodore by an indissoluble tie

Reporting in New Orleans, following in the footsteps of Lafcadio Hearn. No matterwhere he went, Okamura never failed to visit secondhand bookshops

NEWS 29: AT THE DOOR OF THE ÉLYSÉE [PALACE]: －Sirs, the Prince has told me to tell you that he is not there! －What! does he no longer wish to follow our advice? －No. he [sic] claims that you've already stuffed him full of it as it is... －Hapless France! hapless Prince!

The Representatives Represented / The Legislative Assembly 13: Victor Hugo: You have just finished asking him a serious question, he gives himself up to sombre reflections - only the sombre reflection may illuminate the serious question! - he is also the most sombre of all the serious great men!

The Representatives Represented / The Legislative Assembly 13: Victor Hugo: You have just finished asking him a serious question, he gives himself up to sombre reflections - only the sombre reflection may illuminate the serious question! - he is also the most sombre of all the serious great men!

PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 24: Below the upper vignette: Every day he asks to speak, but when given the opportunity, never uses it; Below the lower vignette: Mr. de Montalembert in the Pulpit of the National Assembly

NEWS 198: A member of the society of the tenth of December taking up the note la to bawl long live the Emperor... with two botttles as the tuning-fork

PARLIAMENTARY IDYLLS 13: Before the session opens anew. / Let us harvest the fruits that Pomona grants us. / Come, says Thiers to Molé, let us make a store / Of a few apples of discord

MONOMANIACS 1: THE BEASTOPHILE: The supreme happiness of the Beastophile is to make in his home a small menagerie in the bosom of which he spends his life. One can truly apply to him the proverb: “Tell me whom you associate with, [and] I’ll tell you who you are.”

The Representatives Represented / The Legislative Assembly 17: Félix Saint-Priest: Proof with letters. － de St. Priest is no less celebrated for his postal reforms than for his playful character. Since [the sending of] letters has been four sous, de St. Priest has not much to do; but, to keep himself busy, he has tried for some time to alter his blue spectacles; at least, that's what I conclude from the way he wears them!

PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 13: Below the upper vignette: Mr. Berger, known as The Lofty One, receiving the homage which is certainly due to him on all accounts; Below the lower vignette: The great manœuvre of wooden knives commanded by General Baraguay d'Hilliers

NEWS 27: NEWS FROM THE STOCK EXCHANGE. －The Emperor of Russia has entered Constantinople! －And then what? －He's furious, he didn't find the sultan who'd entered St. Petersburg on the very same day

Ancient History 23: Beautiful Narcissus. He was young and beautiful; with their soft breath / The Zephyrs caressed his contours of manifold attractions, / And in the mirror of the fountains / He loved, as we do, to contemplate his features (Quatrain initiated by Mr. Narcisse de Salvandy)