THE EATERS OF HORSEFLESH 8: He is in the best of conditions... now is the proper moment to eat him...!

THE EATERS OF HORSEFLESH 9: Perhaps it's good... but never mind, I'm still not sufficiently learned to eat that!..

THE EATERS OF HORSEFLESH 11: Reunion of scholars proposing among themselves to experiment with new alimentary substances

THE EATERS OF HORSEFLESH 12: Great revolt of the rats of Montfaucon who do not want to let their food be carried off by the scholars

[THE EATERS OF HORSEFLESH 10]: 1st SCHOLAR: － I'm beginning to be tired of horse-meat... they haven't yet thought of eating dog... what if we try it?... 2nd SCHOLAR: － Why, well!... it's an idea, but let's talk more quietly so he has no suspicions

PARISIAN SKETCHES 21: SCENE OF HORSEFLESH-EATING. － True indeed... there's Sir eating his old horse... I only hope that one day he doesn't get the idea of sitting down to eat his old maid!..

THE EATERS OF HORSEFLESH 13: － You see... I've just done my shopping myself!... I invite you to dine tomorrow... one can't say that its a first-class horse, but the broth from it can only be better!..

NEWS 60 : －Have you left him nothing, that farmer?... －But I heff, cheneral, I left him hiss shirt... if you vish I vill brink it for you to etteck －Well now... Chippmann...... here's the [military] cross!..

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 57: Here's my little boy... if he hasn't got sufficient talent to be with me... in the grocery... I'll make an artist of him too!..

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!

It is always with the deepest sadness..

It is always with the deepest sadness..

It is always with the deepest sadness..

NEWS 59: THE INCONVENIENCE OF DINING WITH A SCHOLAR WHO LIKES MAKING CHEMISTRY AND OTHER EXPERIMENTS. － Well now, without your wuestioning it, I have just make you all eat fritillary... I'm curious to know positively if it's a safe food able to replace the potato or if it's poison

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!

MONOMANIACS 1: THE BEASTOPHILE: The supreme happiness of the Beastophile is to make in his home a small menagerie in the bosom of which he spends his life. One can truly apply to him the proverb: “Tell me whom you associate with, [and] I’ll tell you who you are.”

Conjugal Manners 30: The plea of adultery: "Magistrates, my client is sure of the fact. But this personal conviction is not enough to satisfy him; it is necessary for him to share it with your tribunal, with those listeners gathered here... with the whole of France. Such was the task taken upon myself in the intererst of my client, and I believe that I have made the issue clear before you. Now, it only remains for my client to see... his social position confirmed by a fair judgement, and you are very just. Magistrates, do not refuse him this last satisfaction."

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 24: THE KNIGHT OF THE GOLDEN SPUR: This so-called former Colonel of the Papal Guard, later aide-de-camp to the Prince of Monaco, awaiting as a prize for his services a distinguished post in the Government!... he would, however, willingly accept a tabacconist's shop or a position as an inspector of [street] sweeping; besides [this] he is a gallant man like all knights of his order, for a trifle demanding satisfaction from five-year-old children, perfectly making excuses from the moment you look at him in the face

JOURNEY TO CHINA 3: THE CUSTOMS. Having arrived at customs, the traveller is examined, ransacked, undressed and rifled －His clothes are not admitted to [this country], since they make them in China; －His wig [is], because they do not make them; －His boots, because leather is prohibited; －His clyster-pump, because it is a mechanical object with a suspect use... they seize everything and make him pay duty for the rest, after which, he is as free as the air..

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!..

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!..

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 26: －－See, there's the eclipse beginning... －But I don't see anything... －Oh well! that's as if it should be... when a solicitor vanishes d'you see him?..

MONOMANIACS 3: THE EXPERT: There are Experts and Experts, as there are Uncouth Peolple and Uncouth People. Firtly [there is] the Expert who knows (this is the rarest type); then the Expert who knows nothing, or knows stupid and useless things, that is to say, less than nothing. The Expert of these different categories passes for a profound, serious man; he is in a very good position, and makes a reputation in the world, like all who are hollow. He passes his days full of pleasures and free from failings, except that he is subject to the Cross of Honoour and the Academy

MONOMANIACS 3: THE EXPERT: There are Experts and Experts, as there are Uncouth Peolple and Uncouth People. Firtly [there is] the Expert who knows (this is the rarest type); then the Expert who knows nothing, or knows stupid and useless things, that is to say, less than nothing. The Expert of these different categories passes for a profound, serious man; he is in a very good position, and makes a reputation in the world, like all who are hollow. He passes his days full of pleasures and free from failings, except that he is subject to the Cross of Honoour and the Academy

NEWS 200: A VISIT TO THE CONVICT-PRISON IN NAPLES: Mr.Gladstone－ And what do you call this man? he doesn't look like a villain. The Gaolor－ Don't you believe any of it, on the contrary,he's a demagogue, an old constitutional minister of 1848 called Carlo Poërio. In his inexhaustible clemency the best and most worthy of kings ordered that we chain him to an assassin, so that he might return to the good. He'd have been completely lost if we'd left him with another demagogue