SKETCHES OF THE THEATRE BY DAUMIER [3]: Below the upper vignette: － Take a seat, Cinna!... Below the lower vignette: The Ticket-checking counter while they perform a Tragedy

MUSICAL SKETCHES 17: The orchestra while a Tragedy is performed

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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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PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 26: Below the upper vignette: During a break in the meeting; Below the lower vignette: Young Estancelin permitting himself to leave his seat in order not to miss a word the orator says

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SKETCHES OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE BY DAUMIER 1: Below the upper vignette: Interior of the Stock Exchange. －A view from above on a day [when prices] fall. Below the lower vignette: The stock-brokers' ring, －the least pretty of all known rings

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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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PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 6: Below the upper vignette: The bussiness of the representatives especially charged, in the assembly, with representing seducers.... ; Below the lower vignette: Lagrange delivering himself of a sparkle of eloquence by becoming too carried away

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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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PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 13: Below the upper vignette: Mr. Berger, known as The Lofty One, receiving the homage which is certainly due to him on all accounts; Below the lower vignette: The great manœuvre of wooden knives commanded by General Baraguay d'Hilliers

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PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 18: Below the upper vignette: －You see, how well little Estancelin speaks for his age, and in front of everybody, and without crying... unlike you Anatole, he's a great satisfaction to his parents! ; Below the lower vignette: The meeting is suspended

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NEWS 51: Physiognomies of the audience at the Porte-St-Martin during a production of Richard III

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GROTESQUE SCENES 5: The barbar thinks of his creditors while sharpening his razor. The stupefying practice before this face [makes its owner] begin to feel a stomach ache!..

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PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 16: Below the upper vignette: Bineau the Savage making his entry as minister; Below the lower vignette: －Well, so it's no cleverer than that to talk from the tribune? －Yes, but you, Pierre, you're listening to me too politely, you should say something stupid from time to time, [because] without that there's no longer any illusion, we're not in a meeting any more!

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Strangers in Paris 9: What are called the seductions of Paris: A stall, see master... this evening you’ll hear Madame Dorus-Grasse and Mr. Bariolhé sing... an excellent stall in the pit... twelve francs...cheaper that at the [ticket] desk!

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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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The Blue-stockings 22: The blue-stocking declaiming her play －Act 6 Scene 1... the theatre shows a tiger asleep in the desert... Rosalba barely drags herself forward, and does so with even greater difficulty because of her five children and her aged father: －Rosalba falls at the foot of a date-palm covered with coconuts, and cries in despair: Oh heaven, when will our torments finish. －The entire audience (in a low voice): ‘and ours, too, when will they finish, oh heaven!’

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ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 8: Dramatic farce. Steady on! －Steady on!... don't raise the curtain, I'm not performing... －(The director, hastening, frightened) You're joking, my dear Macaire, you're joking, aren't you? －Not at all, not at all... I won't act... －You won’t play a similar trick at the theatre, on the author, on your poor comrades... －Brrrrt! you don't keep to your engagements, [so] I break mine, give me the forfeit... －I don't keep to my engagements!! －No, you should pay me ready cash, and you owe me... －What ? －You owe me 75 centimes

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ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 8: Dramatic farce. Steady on! －Steady on!... don't raise the curtain, I'm not performing... －(The director, hastening, frightened) You're joking, my dear Macaire, you're joking, aren't you? －Not at all, not at all... I won't act... －You won’t play a similar trick at the theatre, on the author, on your poor comrades... －Brrrrt! you don't keep to your engagements, [so] I break mine, give me the forfeit... －I don't keep to my engagements!! －No, you should pay me ready cash, and you owe me... －What ? －You owe me 75 centimes

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