MUSICAL SKETCHES 4: Seeking to fascinate a rich heiress with his 'do' from the chest

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MUSICAL SKETCHES 18: The first act of a café-concert, singing from seven o'clock until midnight, with or without trills, according to the taste of the consumers

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MUSICAL SKETCHES 1: Parisian music lovers taking advantage of Rossini's sojourn in Italy to allow themselves to perform a bit of William Tell

MUSICAL SKETCHES 1: Parisian music lovers taking advantage of Rossini's sojourn in Italy to allow themselves to perform a bit of William Tell

MUSICAL SKETCHES 13: A music-loving family beginning to rehearse from the morning the great piece which it will sing in the evening at the concert given at Mr. Coquardeau's

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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

PARISIAN SKETCHES, - BY H. DAUMIER . ...And from her pink lips, Escaped a name sweet as a bird's song

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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!

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!

SKETCHES OF THE THEATRE 4: THE-STAGE-MANAGER. - You play kings ineffectually, I'm going to hit you with a fine of not less than one franc fifty, for having missed your entry

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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)

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The Representatives Represented 25: Ferdinand Flocon; At first sight, you perhaps took this person for a Russian prince, slightly Cossack, which cannot have failed to afflict profoundly his quality as a watchful Republican. Ferdinand Flocon was for some weeks Minister of Agriculture, and one of his first acts was to shave his chin, formerly embellished with a full beard. He had even more excellent intentions, but lacked the time to carry them out

The Representatives Represented 25: Ferdinand Flocon; At first sight, you perhaps took this person for a Russian prince, slightly Cossack, which cannot have failed to afflict profoundly his quality as a watchful Republican. Ferdinand Flocon was for some weeks Minister of Agriculture, and one of his first acts was to shave his chin, formerly embellished with a full beard. He had even more excellent intentions, but lacked the time to carry them out

The Representatives Represented 25: Ferdinand Flocon; At first sight, you perhaps took this person for a Russian prince, slightly Cossack, which cannot have failed to afflict profoundly his quality as a watchful Republican. Ferdinand Flocon was for some weeks Minister of Agriculture, and one of his first acts was to shave his chin, formerly embellished with a full beard. He had even more excellent intentions, but lacked the time to carry them out

The Representatives Represented 25: Ferdinand Flocon; At first sight, you perhaps took this person for a Russian prince, slightly Cossack, which cannot have failed to afflict profoundly his quality as a watchful Republican. Ferdinand Flocon was for some weeks Minister of Agriculture, and one of his first acts was to shave his chin, formerly embellished with a full beard. He had even more excellent intentions, but lacked the time to carry them out

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Caricaturana 48: A candidate: Whom do you need?... A man of probity, conscientious, a serious man, a manufacturer, a man who doesn't need the government in order to become rich, a man familiar with the law, who knows it well, from experience, from long experience... A long experience of the law... You couldn't make a better choice, take my... take my honourable friend

Caricaturana 48: A candidate: Whom do you need?... A man of probity, conscientious, a serious man, a manufacturer, a man who doesn't need the government in order to become rich, a man familiar with the law, who knows it well, from experience, from long experience... A long experience of the law... You couldn't make a better choice, take my... take my honourable friend

PARISIANS TYPES 26: Yes, Sir, your respectable air encourages me: you see in me a first tenor who has lost his DO, but who still has his wife. With eighteen children, and nothing more! nooo... thing mmmm... ore; lend me fifteen pounds or so! -I've only got a forty franc piece on me! -I'll give it back to you!

PARISIANS TYPES 26: Yes, Sir, your respectable air encourages me: you see in me a first tenor who has lost his DO, but who still has his wife. With eighteen children, and nothing more! nooo... thing mmmm... ore; lend me fifteen pounds or so! -I've only got a forty franc piece on me! -I'll give it back to you!

MUSICAL SKETCHES 8: - Oh! sir what talent mademoiselle your daughter possesses... what talent, what talent! - In our family, we are all superlatively consituted for music... I myself, in my youth, was of first-rate skill on the clarinet

MUSICAL SKETCHES 8: - Oh! sir what talent mademoiselle your daughter possesses... what talent, what talent! - In our family, we are all superlatively consituted for music... I myself, in my youth, was of first-rate skill on the clarinet

Musicians of Paris 6: If you knew how pretty you were!  pretened to play.-Say nothing do.- You do not love me si-And I shall always be! la mi

Musicians of Paris 6: If you knew how pretty you were! pretened to play.-Say nothing do.- You do not love me si-And I shall always be! la mi

French Types 2: The tailor: He walks with an arched back, his shoulders like a coat-stand and his elbows turned outwards. His suits, cut in the latest fashion, often clash with his boots and hat, he nearly always has a very euphonical name such as Wahaterkermann or Pikprunmann

French Types 2: The tailor: He walks with an arched back, his shoulders like a coat-stand and his elbows turned outwards. His suits, cut in the latest fashion, often clash with his boots and hat, he nearly always has a very euphonical name such as Wahaterkermann or Pikprunmann

TODAY'S PHILANTHROPISTS 9: “Yesterday, in the rue St. Honoré, a respectable old man fell, struck by an attack of apoplexy, it would have been the end of him had not the celebrated Doctor Cabassol, who was by chance at his window at No. 107, hastened to fly to his aid: thanks to intelligent and prodigious help together with the most touching solicitude the sick man was promptly restored to life. Our celebrated Doctor Cabassol topping his generous behaviour wanted to receive as payment for his care only the thanks of a family which will eternally bless his name. Honour to Doctor Cabassol!” -Look here, it's you who's the respectable old man in question, yesterday you failed to fall when coming to see me, you could have injured yourself and then I could have saved you... I contrived it all a little more dramatically for the newspaper... it won't do you any harm and it'll do me a lot of good!

TODAY'S PHILANTHROPISTS 9: “Yesterday, in the rue St. Honoré, a respectable old man fell, struck by an attack of apoplexy, it would have been the end of him had not the celebrated Doctor Cabassol, who was by chance at his window at No. 107, hastened to fly to his aid: thanks to intelligent and prodigious help together with the most touching solicitude the sick man was promptly restored to life. Our celebrated Doctor Cabassol topping his generous behaviour wanted to receive as payment for his care only the thanks of a family which will eternally bless his name. Honour to Doctor Cabassol!” -Look here, it's you who's the respectable old man in question, yesterday you failed to fall when coming to see me, you could have injured yourself and then I could have saved you... I contrived it all a little more dramatically for the newspaper... it won't do you any harm and it'll do me a lot of good!

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