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NEWS 116: THE 4 MAY CELEBRATIONS: The Burgraves decorating with some flowers the statue of the Republic. / ( This part of the programme could not be carried out, / we do not know for what reasons.)

The Blue-stockings 17: (The pit at the Odéon) － The author!... the author!... the author!... － Gentlemen, your impatience will be satisfied... you wish to know who is the author of this play which has just received such a great, and I should say, such justifiable, success... the author... is meeeeee!

NEWS 179: The soothsayers of diplomacy not daring to broach the Prussian-bird in order to know what to believe

Strangers in Paris 5: An obliging guide: －Excuse me, Sir... do you know the most direct route to go to la Bourse? －Certainly, with the greatest pleasure... please come this way... you take the left side... follow it all the way along... and la bourse[sic] is there... right at the tip of my finger!..

Strangers in Paris 16: The Daguerreotype portrait: －Here is the work of the sun..., how coloured it is, hm?... how warm... and all in three seconds! －Well, true...looking at that, you wouldn’t say that I’d been in the sun for only three seconds... you’d think I’d been in it for three years, because I look like a real negro... never mind, it’s a pretty portrait, and my wife will be well pleased!..

The Artists 4: Inconvenient to send a bad picture to the Salon: －They wrote above my forest! －Spinach twelve to the metre! －And me, on my magnificent study worthy of Géricault, they had the barbarity to stick this notice! this is a horse, don’t mistake it for a donkey since it will be confused with the artist!

IN CHINA 8: －To think that in France, I had so much trouble in getting one of them, and here, here I am with two on my arm... what a swanky place!..

Ancient History 21: Marius at Minturnae. Admire the roguishness of this great General! / Seeing that he was going to be seized; / Across the reeds [and] into the slime he slid / And laughed with certainty in this swamp of FAST COLOUR (Historical pun by Mr. de Rothschild)

THE BACHELOR'S DAY 1: 7 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING: Mr. Coquelet's awakening: Minette and Azor argue over the paternal kiss Mr. Coquelet smiles at this touching rivalry

NEWS 278: － Yes, missis Fribochon, there was, three weeks ago, a veru big earth tremor in Bordeaux, and no later than the day before yesterday, between midnight and three in the morning I felt jolts in my bed that weren't natural... mister Potard, the herbalist, explained this Phenomenon to me... he claims that it's owing to the government that allows too much digging up of the land in California and that it'll end up by playing a dirty trick on all of us in the Batignolles..

Musicians of Paris 5: “Where could we be better off (repeat.)” “Than in the bosom of the family － ” There three artists would find themselves better off in the bosom of the tavern, and their young associate in the bosom of a game of marbles

JOURNEY TO CHINA 9: A CHINESE DANCE.One is greatly mistaken if one believes the Chinese people to be giddy, joyful and the friend of pleasure: they are on the contrary serious and morose, since their greatest amusement consists in a type of lugubrious walking in which the men and women walk one in front of the other, or one beside the other, and seem to be saying among themselves: brother we should die! In order also to point to the philosophical intention behind this ceremony, the opposite of dancing, they call it: Counter-dancing

MEMORIES OF THE PEACE CONGRESS 1: Victor Hugo, in a lecture of three points, demonstrates the futility of military glory, and proves by example that the crown of laurels could be replaced to advantage by a crown of roses! this gives him the advantage of making a novel effect of his forehead

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!..

TODAY'S PHILANTHROPISTS 15: －Come closer, friends, do not be ashamed... you see that it is only I myself!... you are five hundred... good... today I am going to distribute these twenty three bunches of faggots and this pot-full of broth, broth in which each week I pour the best part of my fortune!..

NEWS 86: THE FINAL PROOF: After this effort, he slowly turned up his eyes, and slept constitutionally in the bosom of eternal forgetfulness

TENANTS AND LANDLOADS 5: －Why, madam..., I am unwise enough to absent myself from my property for some months and this is the state in which I find you... I give you twenty four hours' notice to leave... I don't even know that I don't have the right to claim damages from your husband!..

THE BACHELOR'S DAY 9: THREE O'CLOCK: Mister Coquelet at the court of petty sessions; he admires this institution which shelters impudent people and the undertakings of corrupt beings

MONOMANIACS 5: THE REGULATOR: The word regulator normally applying to a type of machine, may wall also be applied to the individual above. One finds in Paris, said to be the most spiritual town in the most spiritual country in the Universe, several dozen particular men whose sole intellectual occupation is to regulate, each day, their watch on the shot of midday from the canon of the Royal Palace. Here, gunpowder makes those happy who will never set the world on fire

Conjugal Manners 29: This is the moment (past midnight) when calm and peace truly reign in happy households. Better late than never

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