A tree frog chirping back in response to the same species' chirps streaming from a cell phone

NEWS 661: That which will bring our deputies back to Paris, in spite of themselves

NEWS 661: That which will bring our deputies back to Paris, in spite of themselves

MUSICAL SKETCHES 13: A music-loving family beginning to rehearse from the morning the great piece which it will sing in the evening at the concert given at Mr. Coquardeau's

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 63: THE NEIGHBOURS BEFORE THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE: Well, I won the case all the same, and you won't be so stuck-up now, Mrs. Pimbèche... because the Justice of the Peace has sentenced you to go back to your house which backs on to mine!..

Parisian Freebooters 12: The Crocodile: This has to do with a variety of species of Crocodile, which was known to the ancients under the name of Tantalus and which a Gymnasium naturalist of our time has called the Gastronome without money. This voracious whale-like creature is most commonly found in the localities of Merchants of Eatables. His teeth are pointed and very long from lack of exercise, since he uses only his eyes to devour. When he has had the perseverance to remain for a whole day static in front of his prey he sometimes ends up by having the luck to catch... a crick in the neck. He feeds himself only on desires and vain hopes, he is also remarkably thin. Very different from other fish of his species that swim in open water, this type of Crocodile is always in the dry

NEWS 75: THE SETTLEMENT OR YOUR LIFE: The delicate manner assumed by the English in reclaiming a debt from a friendly people: －Twenty four hours to pay the interest at twelve per cent!

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!

PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 7: Below the upper vignette: Pierre Leroux daring to address the demi-god Barrot; Below the lower vignette: Pierre Leroux, having set forth to the tribune his social doctriness, [that are] no less tangled than his hair, receives a hand-shakes from his friends, who, in a fashion, appear to have understood them

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

Strangers in Paris 11: A little trip by omnibus: －Are you going to the exhibition?... －Yes, Sir... look at our notice yourself... at the faubourg St. Jacques you take a connecting [omnibus] which takes you to the Jardin des Plantes... from there you go to Belleville from where they take you directly to the Champs-Élysées

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

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 40: －Sir, would you be kind enough to tell me when you'ld like to pay me back the five hundred francs you've been owing me for a long time... －My dear man, you're unreasonable to make such a request of me, you clearly see that I have nothing on me at this very moment..

Caricaturana 48: A candidate: Whom do you need?... A man of probity, conscientious, a serious man, a manufacturer, a man who doesn't need the government in order to become rich, a man familiar with the law, who knows it well, from experience, from long experience... A long experience of the law... You couldn't make a better choice, take my... take my honourable friend

COSSACKS TO LAUGH AT or COSSACKS FOR A LAUGH 17: Oursikoff!... do you think this is a likeness?... －No, Sire!... －Right...... I'd have sent you to Siberia if you had recognised me... all these bad caricatures from LE CHARIVARI won't prevent my being still the most handsome man in my empire!... －Yes,Sire!.....

Caricaturana 38: Lively! Lively! Bertrand, got to push the merchandise onto the market, beat the big drum, make a show, attract the sucker's attention! Lively! Lively! We'll attack ourselves in the newspapers, write to ourselves, reply to ourselves, answer ourselves, insult ourselves, and above all, advertise ourselves... －do you think the public won't have the key to these shams? －Leave off, everybody has the key to them except the public

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 17: Man in naluratibus [sic]. Philosophy, my dear Bertrand, explains very well our two characters from our physiques... you are weakness, I am strength... to you is cunning, to me courage... you are the ivy and I the oak, without me the slightest breeze from the police will plunge you into a torrent of misfortune... do not leave me and inscribe upon your arms: I die or I cling

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 17: Man in naluratibus [sic]. Philosophy, my dear Bertrand, explains very well our two characters from our physiques... you are weakness, I am strength... to you is cunning, to me courage... you are the ivy and I the oak, without me the slightest breeze from the police will plunge you into a torrent of misfortune... do not leave me and inscribe upon your arms: I die or I cling

NEWS 552: OPENING OF THE HUNTING SEASON. THE POSE IN THE RAILWAY STATION. A Parisian firmly resolved this year to destroy all the hares infesting the plain of St. Denis..., with terrible new shot from Devismes[sic]

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 33: “The theatre is a good thing for the lower classes of Paris, they come there to relax in the evening from the hard toils of the day.” (All the moralists)

[NEWS] 185: Attached through their grandeur to the bank of the Seine, the ministers Parrieu and Rouher consoled themselves at not being able to pass the holidays in their mountains by dancing a bourrée from their birthplace, behind the closed doors of one of the rooms in the Ministry of Justice

MONOMANIACS 2: THE EMBROIDERER: An example of the error that nature sometimes commits in labelling the sexes. Thus, in the same way that you see so-called women who sport trousers, a kind of moustache, play the cornet, the double-bass, or who compose humanitarian novels; so you see so-called men who pluck the harp, hem ties, embroider at the frame with their men's hands, and if need be, do a little cooking

NEWS 105: THE REJUVENATION OF THE CONSTITUTIONEL [sic] FOLLOWING THE REJUVENATION OF AESON: I read in Mr. de Chompre's book that the aged Aeson was in earlier times perfectly rejuvenated by making him simmer in a stew-pot with a multitude of small spices, such as marshmallow roots, lizard, sticks of liquorice and toads... but the precise recipe of this stew has been lost... I have imagined new ingredients, but unfortunately they are devilishly expensive! I think I would have done better to preserve my old fellow by －having him stuffed by Mr. Gannat!

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!

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!