JOURNEY TO CHINA 2: THE PASSPORT. The foreigner who visits China is submitted to an indispensable formality; he receives a slip of paper on which is written the age he wants to indicate, the profession he says he pursues and the place where it pleases him to appoint his birth; all that followed by a description of particulars which applies to everybody, after which, against a consideration of two francs, the Chinese government is deemed to lend him succour and assistance for one year

MUSICAL SKETCHES 5: A gentleman managing to prove that he is able to sing and play the piano at the same time － which is a great discomfort

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JOURNEY TO CHINA 1: THE DISEMBARKATION. Each traveller who lands at a port in China is immediately conducted, like a wrong-doer, between two rows of inquisitive people to the passport office: hardly has he touched the soil of the Celestial Empire, than he becomes the prey of luggage-porters, hotel-boys, interpreters, messengers and other highwaymen authorised by the Chinese police

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NEWS: CHINA CIVILISING HERSELF. －Now then..., attention!... here's the European theory... the eyes looking fifteen paces into the distance and let the foot which is on the ground quickly go to rejoin that which is in the air..

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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!

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(Woman Is Trampling On)

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

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Parisian Freebooters 12: The Crocodile: This has to do with a variety of species of Crocodile, which was known to the ancients under the name of Tantalus and which a Gymnasium naturalist of our time has called the Gastronome without money. This voracious whale-like creature is most commonly found in the localities of Merchants of Eatables. His teeth are pointed and very long from lack of exercise, since he uses only his eyes to devour. When he has had the perseverance to remain for a whole day static in front of his prey he sometimes ends up by having the luck to catch... a crick in the neck. He feeds himself only on desires and vain hopes, he is also remarkably thin. Very different from other fish of his species that swim in open water, this type of Crocodile is always in the dry

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JOURNEY TO CHINA 17: THE PENAL CODE. The Chinese legislators have decreed that all the accused will answer a summons freely in front of their judges, and so they are brought before the examining magistrate between two policemen and bound with handcuffs, which in fact leaves them no more liberty than to sneeze. Moreover justice is delivered with such promptness in the Celestial Empire that it is very rare for he who has been cautioned to remain more than eight months before attending his trial, finally the solemn day arrives when he sees himself sentenced to a fortnight in prison, and the capped mandarin has the goodness to explain to him that this fortnight is not to be confused with the eight months he has already spent behind bolted doors

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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!..

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The Spirit Is about to Part

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NEWS 49: A service which is not easy to render

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EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 30: －Oh my dear, when you've got a dog you should never have a husband!... only yesterday mine had a thing about refusing a chiken wing to Mimire, he only wanted give him a leg!... －There need to be men who're fierce!..

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JOURNEY TO CHINA 6: CHINESE PROPRIETY. In this country they have a singular idea of propriety!... the most chaste young girl, the most upstanding woman do not blush, by a prodigious exaggeration of forms, to call attention to a certain quarter to which they give the appearance of a veritable air-balloon... they call that a bustle..

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

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JOURNEY TO CHINA 19: CHINESE WORRIORS. All Chinese men have the right, from six to eight times a year, to carry a rifle, a cartridge-pouch, and even to wear a fur cap; then they apply themselves, more or less voluntarily to night patrols which have as their goal the maintenance of public peace. Only it happens quite often that the chief named KA-PO-RAL takes infinite trouble to prevent his warriors singing at the tops of their voices “mother GO-DI-CHON” or other Chinese ballads, and it is by waking with a start that the good citizens learn that their rest is being watched over

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MEMORIES OF THE PEACE CONGRESS [2]: SECOND MEETING: An American orator proves in an irrefutable manner that the only means of pacifying humankind is to force all men to wear, like him, a green hat, which they should never remove except in the evenings, when going to bed. No one even dared to contest this opinion

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NEWS 1: THE RUSSIAN QUESTION DEALT WITH ON A COUCH － Yes mister Coquardeau, the ambition of the Russian Colossus becomes insatiable... it is already not enough for him to have blown up the Black Sea and to have smashed all the seaports in the Levant, now today the same Colossus makes ready to seize the Dardanelles... I am of a mind to suffer none of it mister Coquardeau!

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Teachers and Rascals 31: The laborious and delicate mission of the drawing teacher; to him is always reserved the difficult task of redressing the twists and inaccuracies of his young pupils!

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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!

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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!

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NEWS 88: POOR MR. ROUHER! A VOICE (from the wings)－Come on! you've got to jump. HIM－But i'm going to sink to the bottom!

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JOURNEY TO CHINA 7: CHINESE MARRIAGE. The angler's skill in setting his lines, the hunter's artfulness in taking game, the horse-dealer's tricks to hide the redhibitory defects of his horse, nothing is comparable to the skill, the artfulness, the trick which a mother deploys in order to marry her daughter... the poor Chinese men mistrust the lures, of honey and of glue, to no avail, someone always falls into the maternal snare

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The Salon of 1842: Charmed to see himself exhibited, the original seen here takes his wife to the Salon, and places her in front of his own image, in order to rejoice in the crowd's judgment. －Look, say some, it's Chinese Commissioner Lin! －No, says others, don't you see that it's a bit of natural history! － It is, joins in a gentleman with a catalogue, it is the portrait of Mr. D..., insurance broker. －Well, with a bonce like that he needn't insure it, because no one would steal it. (His lady wife leaves, extremely flattered.)

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The Salon of 1842: Charmed to see himself exhibited, the original seen here takes his wife to the Salon, and places her in front of his own image, in order to rejoice in the crowd's judgment. －Look, say some, it's Chinese Commissioner Lin! －No, says others, don't you see that it's a bit of natural history! － It is, joins in a gentleman with a catalogue, it is the portrait of Mr. D..., insurance broker. －Well, with a bonce like that he needn't insure it, because no one would steal it. (His lady wife leaves, extremely flattered.)

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