THE SPECULATORS 1: －I bought this ground at one franc per metre and I'll sell it at 9 francs. －Who to?... －The name's not important as long as I earn 8 francs per metre... it's not too expensive. the ground's well worth 600 francs per metre on the boulevard Montmartre!... －Yes, but this place isn't populated. －What d'you mean, not populated... there are more than twenty thousand rabbits!

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 62: THE DAQY WHEN YOU HAVE TO DISPLAY GALLANTRY: －How much is that big bouquet?... －Ten francs －Good God!... and this little here? －Fifteen francs －Damnation!..

NEWS 35: AN AERIAL [SHORT] EXCURSION TRAIN. The aeronaut. － Well! gentlemen, what do you say to this spectacle? A citizen. － I say that I'm very angry at having paid three hundred francs for my place!..

NEWS 180: －This is not the only time you will replace us!..

SKETCHES OF EXPRESSIONS 14: My dear fellow, may I have the pleasure of your lending me 15 frcs.[francs].－Willingly, but I've only got ten. －Deuce!...deuce!... give them to me anyway, you can owe me five

THE DOOR-KEEPERS OF PARIS 4: － If you are not of the nobility, it's useless my showing you this appartment I let only to titled people

SKETCH OF THE DAY 28: You know the fat deputy from opposite, who's a representative at 25 francs a day, well, this morning I read off the newspaper that they'd given him a commission! －A commission pays generally seventy five centimes without even a written decision... on that day he should've made 25 francs 15 sous, what luck!

The Disasters of War: This is worse

The Disasters of War: As many and more

Strangers in Paris 12: A fixed-price dinner: There’s a restaurateur who does things on a large scale... for our thirty two sous he’s given us a stomachache worth twenty francs per head!..

NEWS 85: －This trunk is no one's, therefore it ought to belong to us

The Artists 4: Inconvenient to send a bad picture to the Salon: －They wrote above my forest! －Spinach twelve to the metre! －And me, on my magnificent study worthy of Géricault, they had the barbarity to stick this notice! this is a horse, don’t mistake it for a donkey since it will be confused with the artist!

NEWS 186: －Doctor, I assure you that I am not as ill as you say I am!..

THE UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION 34: An English family not managing to escape the discomfort of sleeping in the open air, for which, thanks to the hospitality of a MILORD. (Night tariff, two francs fifty centimes per hour.)

THRILLS OF THE COUNTRY 1: －Since threre isn't a village policeman here... let's do ourselves proud!..

Parliamentary Scenes 1: The electoral visit Until tomorrow, dear Mr.Filochard...besides, if I am not elected I will have as my consolation the fact that my candidature has brought me the pleasure of making your acquaintance!...－ Oh,Sir!...Oh,Sir!..

NEWS 197: HOLDERS OF SHARES IN CALIFORNIA. －Yesterday I poured in five thousand francs as the price of a thousand shares in the Californian Yellow Water-Lily Company... we've the cultivation of the entire left bank of the Sacramento... I think I've done good business... and the owner is as convinced as I am... －I prefer the Golden Carrot Company, I've put all the money I have in it

SENTIMENTS AND PASSIONS 4: This Gentleman, on leaving the Tavern where he has lost his last twenty francs, thinks of Rotschild [sic]; of fillets of St. Cloud; of selling his matress, ... of everything, except... not playing again

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!

News 40: － It is not true that this tragedy contains beauties of the first order... and yet it was refused by the committee of the Théâtre Français and even by that of the Odéon... there is only one thing left: I am going to leave my manuscript with the caretaker of the Gymnasium, without giving my name!

JOURNEY TO CHINA 3: THE CUSTOMS. Having arrived at customs, the traveller is examined, ransacked, undressed and rifled －His clothes are not admitted to [this country], since they make them in China; －His wig [is], because they do not make them; －His boots, because leather is prohibited; －His clyster-pump, because it is a mechanical object with a suspect use... they seize everything and make him pay duty for the rest, after which, he is as free as the air..

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 2: THE GLEANER: What, not a needle,... not a handkerchief!... there's no longer any means of doing your job... it's the banker's wives, they don't leave anything lying around!..

LIFE'S DIFFICULT MOMENTS 3 : － For the seventh time will you give me my seat?... if not... － If not what?... － If not, I'll be obliged to go away, which would vex me greatly!

Childish Acts 4: In winter it's silly to have children dressed up as nicely as this!..

THE BATHERS －by H. DAUMIER: A FAMILY GROUP. －No, I don't want to learn to swim in the water!... as much as you'ld like at home, papa, but not in the water, not in the water!..