NEWS 162: THE RESULTS OF MACADAMIZATION. View of the boulevards in six months' time... － the despair of proprieters!

NEWS 156: Parisians having found a method of moving around on macadamized boulevards, in rainy weather

NEWS 58: A view taken in the new rue de Rivoli

NEWS 160: MAC-ADAM AND BINEAU IN HELL. As the result of a terrible, but deserved, punishment, they are condemned to repave the Champs-Elysées

NEWS 155: One of the slight inconveniences of Macadamization. － More than that [amount] of dust... go and take a stroll along the Boulevard!..

[NEWS 142]: PALMISTRY, THE NEW PASS-TIME OF GOOD PARISIANS － Adélaïde... I've searched in vain... I can't find the little line which foretells long life... my God!... must I die in the prime of life!..

NEWS 169: NEXT PROCLAMATION BY THE PREFECT OF POLICE. To avold accidents, carriages and horses will, from henceforth, be unable to drive on macadamized boulevards without a loud bell which will alert pedestrians of their approach

NEWS 203: Casmajou－ I think that the time has come to claim as the price for my devotion the reward of a frock-coat! Ratapoil－ Well, now, do you think my boots leave nothing to be desired in connection with the sole! (Together)(in chorus)－ Oh, the ingratitude of Governments!

NEWS 55: AN EFFECT OF THE DEMOLITION WORKS IN PARIS. Certainly here's where I live... and I can't even recover my wife!

Parisian Freebooters 6: The Umbrella-trick: The freebooter takes advantage of the storm [,] going about it in the manner you see [here]... he pushes his umbrella into the face of a passer-by and seizes his victim's Watch, Purse or Pocket-book

NEWS 27: －Yes, Mrs.Chaboulard, there're twenty four grocers who've joined together and taken the oath to murder president Dupin. －The horror of it!... but also why doesn't the government watch the grocers better... I said it a long time ago, all grocers are scoundrels!... and to prove it, yesterday mine sold me mustard for two sous and he only gave me six liards' worth... I'm going to denounce him, he'll be one of the twenty four!..

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!’

NEWS 99: IMPRESSIONS OF A JOURNEY BY A GREAT POET: “One of the curiosities of Frankfurt that will soon disappear, I fear, is the butcher's shop. it [sic] is impossible to see a more splendid pile of fresh flesh. The bloody butchers and pink butchers’ wives chat gracefully under garlands of legs of mutton. A red stream, its colour barely altered by two gushing fountains, runs and smokes in the middle of the street!” (The Rhine by Victor Hugo Volume 2 page 357)

PARISIAN MEN IN 1852. 6: － [May] I introduce to you my son Théodule, scarely out of college and he's already made a multitude of victims... al the young women wish to marry him! － The bad boy!... he takes after his father!

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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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