PASTORALS 12: The danger of finding yourself in the middle of a point-to-point race, or pigsty-chase!

PASTORALS 10: The danger of wanting to visit too wild spot

NEWS 478: The Builder of the LEVIATHAN, finding, in a dream, the means to propel his boat forward

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!..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 12: A day of the 1st performance

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 12: A day of the 1st performance

Suddenly I felt better. Maybe it was the magic of the old woman, or the gods had pity on me

PASTORALS 32: －Thief of a cock-chafer... so it's you who's eating away all my property... you'll perish by my hand alone!..

NEWS 76: The 56 or the political Trappists. －All the same, to think of being obliged to sit facing the tomb!..

NEWS 76: The 56 or the political Trappists. －All the same, to think of being obliged to sit facing the tomb!..

PASTORALS 34: -－Will you shut up with your Cock-a doodle-doos...there's no point in coming to the country to sleep peacefully, －I'm woken everyday at three o'clock in the morning... I slept better in Paris, even when my wife was alive!..

PASTORALS 13: －What!... all my sheep are dead of the pip and my chickens of sheep-pox!... and this is what's sold to me as a country house with a yield and charm!..

PASTORALS 13: －What!... all my sheep are dead of the pip and my chickens of sheep-pox!... and this is what's sold to me as a country house with a yield and charm!..

PASTORALS 1: －Come back here again... you great wheedler!... bite his calves puppy, bite his calves!... －Good God!... I'd never been acquainted with the force of that power there...concerning the punch

PASTORALS 40: －Needless to say, I've got to cross this devil of a small wood to get home... I'm angry at having stayed so late at neighbour Rigolard's so as to make a hundred at piquet... if I'd thought I'd have made only half a hundred

You look like getting chased by a fire. How pale you are...you aren't yourself. What's the matter? "It's not good to chase after what you think to be precious," I answerd muttering

PARLIAMENTARY IDYLLS 15: How sweet it is, how sweet it is on the slope of a valley, / Far form the noise and shouts of the troublesome crowd, / In the middle of a beautiful day, to invoke Apollo / And at night to address sonnets to the moon

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!..

SKETCHES OF THE THEATRE 15: That which proves to us why it is pertfectly useless to spout gracious compliments to the public, in the play's final couplet

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!

Sketches of the Day 27: The Representative’s wife

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

From your humble little squirts / Receive, on your birthday, / Two types of bouquet / For the opening of which prepare yourself. / They will please you, because the French people / Alone have met all the expenses

Teachers and Rascals 9: The foolhardy young who allow themselves to be carried away by a point of honour, and who snap their fingers at the checks of the highest Appeal Court in the land

PASTORALS 22: －I tell you you've moved the boundary stone and you've moved it forward on to my field!... And I'm telling you I haven't... and I'll maintain in front of all the courts that it's due to my father, and even my grandfather, that my boundary's where it is!... Ah! but!..