SKETCHES OF AUTUMN by DAUMIER 3: OPENING OF THE HUNTING SEASON. Two young partridges have been sighted in the country

SKETCHES OF AUTUMN by DAUMIER 2: The King of the Pumpkins receiving homage from his subjects

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SKETCHES OF SUMMER by DAUMIER 9: In the four-sous baths

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SKETCHES OF AUTUMN by DAUMIER 5: －Look here the sparrow was perching in that tree, it's very easy to shoot. －Yes, but if I kill it, we'll no longer have the opportunity to hunt tomorrow... it's the last one in our garden

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SKETCHES OF SUMMER by DAUMIER 8: Going to the cold baths only for the opportunity of developing his biceps

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SKETCHES OF AUTUMN by DAUMIER 1: GRAPE-PICKING AT ARGENTEUIL －Ow! I found that that was not Beautiful that lacked Wery Well of.... countenance!..

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NEWS 552: OPENING OF THE HUNTING SEASON. THE POSE IN THE RAILWAY STATION. A Parisian firmly resolved this year to destroy all the hares infesting the plain of St. Denis..., with terrible new shot from Devismes[sic]

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SKETCHES OF THE THEATRE BY DAUMIER 2: Below the upper vignette: The couplet [adressed to] the public. Below the lower vignette: The public while being addressed with its couplet

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SKETCHES OF AUTUMN by DAUMIER 4: －Sir, given the complete absence of game, I beg you to grant me permission to fire at your dog. －Sir, I was going to put the same proposition to you!..

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[PARISIAN SKETCHES, － BY H. DAUMIER] (AT THE CIRCUS. She is his daughter: or the art of destroying his children and making denials of it.)

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SKETCHES OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE BY DAUMIER 4: Below the upper vignette: Counsels by the tribunal of commerce in all the majesty of their costume. Below the lower vignette: A raiser of business not disdaining to trouble himself over a mere length of neckerchief

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SKETCHES OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE BY DAUMIER 6: Below the upper vignette: Having succeeded in getting into the interior of the Stock Exchange under the pretext of being litigants at the tribunal of commerce. Below the lower vignette: What a company at the Stock Exchange doors!... to be sure, I'd prefer to queue at the Ambigu, it's better regulated!..

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SKETCHES OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE BY DAUMIER 3: Below the upper vignette: How is it that everyone can't be happy. Below the lower vignette: Pleasant view of the little nightly Stock Exchange in front of the Opera thoroughfare: －make no mistake about it, all these gentlemen are capitalists

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SKETCHES OF THE HUNT 5: －Well!... Are we going to continue our hunting, despite the vile weathe?... －No! absolutely not..., it's raining... the game fear the rain as much as we do..., they can't fail to come and shelter in this cottage, and we're going to bag lots of them!..

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SKETCHES OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE BY DAUMIER 2: Below the upper vignette: SMALL-SCALE SPECULATORS. －Mrs. Chaffarou... I need to get out of MILITARY BEDS in order to get into the CRYSTAL PALACE... unless of course I get into the GAUDALQUIVIR. Below the lower vignette: OPENING OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE. How you can fall flat on your face by running too quickly after wealth

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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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SKETCHES OF SUMMER 40: －Sir, would you be kind enough to tell me when you'ld like to pay me back the five hundred francs you've been owing me for a long time... －My dear man, you're unreasonable to make such a request of me, you clearly see that I have nothing on me at this very moment..

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SKETCHES OF AUTUMN 1: －What... you're going to press grapes with your feet ?... －Well!...they're not at all dirty... anyway, I've taken care to take my shoes off!..

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JOURNEY TO CHINA 16: THE MUSIC LESSON. The Chinese man of independent means likes to occupy his leisure by cultivating music: very willingly he takes lessons on the clarinet, the accordion or the hunting horn, and in spite of the contrary opinion of his unfortunate neighbours, persists in calling this an accomplishment!

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SKETCHES OF THE HUNT 6: －Here, I've just killed a magnificent gouse!... －But, wretched man!... that's Brahma the cock from the neighbouring farm..., a cock that'll perhaps cost you more than thirty francs... without counting the pitchfork blows!..

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TODAY'S PHILANTHROPISTS 12: －So then, my friend, at the age of twenty two you had already killed three men... what a powerful nature, and how guilty society is for not having better guided it!... －Oh! yeah sir!... in my view the police have been very wrong... without them I wouldn't be here!..

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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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