A Bat that Still Can't Fly in the Evening

A Photograph of the Plastic Model That I Can't Put Together after Eight Years Because I Want Make a Neat Job of It

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 51: －It doesn't surprise me that women always have a taste for military uniform! －

Hilltop in the evening, Germany

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 61: －What were you thinking of, Mr. Piquepruneman, to have made me a frock-coat as much [in the style] of a landlord as that... you well know that I live in the same street as citizen Proudhon!..

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 40: －For three months, your grace has been posing always like that... now the portrait's no longer a likeness... it's no longer that!..

NEWS 24: － What... the paper says that it's rumoured in the Stock-Exchange that the Russians have crossed the Prut!... － Well! Mister Panelet... all the same... because the Russians have begun hostilities that's no reason for you not to finish off shaving

The Tombstone Changes its Position in the Evening

A Set Including Mexican and Italian Souvenirs from Friends, the Clock Mechanism That I Can't Throw Away for Some Reason, and One of My Molar Tooth That Fell Out Last Fall

A scorpion fly feeding on prey remnant in debris stabilimenta built by a spider, Cyclosa octotuberculata

Caricatures of the Day: The bourgeois at the Salon: Let's see... What's that?... (reading from his catalogue) "No. 387. Portrait of Mr. B*** stock-broker"... well... well!... oh! how stupid I am... 386 is the portrait of Mr. B***, this is a portrait of a bull by Mr. Bracassat... I'd also say... that the idea of having yourself painted with horns as big as that... after that, you can't refuse a stock-broker anything

Childish Acts 5: I would have never thought that at my age..

NEWS 87: －Well now! but we can't see anything in your magic lantern? －Have a little patience! the curtain hasn't yet risen

THE FEASTERS 4: Rifolaed was more charmed than ever at not having got himself killed in the June days, for that would have deprived him of the pleasure of walking in the streets of Boulogne under a rain of flowers

THE FEASTERS 4: Rifolaed was more charmed than ever at not having got himself killed in the June days, for that would have deprived him of the pleasure of walking in the streets of Boulogne under a rain of flowers

PARISIAN SKETCHES 7: In contemplation before the opera's ship, － at least it is not before that of the porte St. Martin, － nor indeed that of the ambigu [sic], － anyway, what is certain is that they are gazing upon a vessel

SKETCH OF THE DAY 28: You know the fat deputy from opposite, who's a representative at 25 francs a day, well, this morning I read off the newspaper that they'd given him a commission! －A commission pays generally seventy five centimes without even a written decision... on that day he should've made 25 francs 15 sous, what luck!

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..

The Good Bourgeois 20: －It appears they have just seen the sea serpent again in the Indian Ocean! －Is that possible, for goodness sake! －Certainly it's possible, for goodness sake, because I told you that it says so in le Constitutionnel! so!..

The Good Bourgeois 20: －It appears they have just seen the sea serpent again in the Indian Ocean! －Is that possible, for goodness sake! －Certainly it's possible, for goodness sake, because I told you that it says so in le Constitutionnel! so!..

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

JOURNEY TO CHINA 6: CHINESE PROPRIETY. In this country they have a singular idea of propriety!... the most chaste young girl, the most upstanding woman do not blush, by a prodigious exaggeration of forms, to call attention to a certain quarter to which they give the appearance of a veritable air-balloon... they call that a bustle..

NEWS 36: This chariot still rolls on... This chariot still rolls on, in vain did they want to put sticks in the wheels!

Women Bathers 2: In the summer it’s only here... that I feel comfortable

PARISIAN IN 1848. 2: That confounded Pigochard... always has to court the whiimen!..