The Representatives Represented / The Legislative Assembly 17: Félix Saint-Priest: Proof with letters. － de St. Priest is no less celebrated for his postal reforms than for his playful character. Since [the sending of] letters has been four sous, de St. Priest has not much to do; but, to keep himself busy, he has tried for some time to alter his blue spectacles; at least, that's what I conclude from the way he wears them!

He Never Told His Love, 1884

Ancient History 23: Beautiful Narcissus. He was young and beautiful; with their soft breath / The Zephyrs caressed his contours of manifold attractions, / And in the mirror of the fountains / He loved, as we do, to contemplate his features (Quatrain initiated by Mr. Narcisse de Salvandy)

NEWS 7: A MEETING OF THE COUNCIL OF FIVE: Messrs de Lévis, de Pastoret d’Ecars and de St. Priest deigning to allow the plebeian Berryer join them in order to regulate the destiny of the new France

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

THE FEASTERS 1: The national guardsman Rifolard, not having left his home during the five days of June, was unable to resist the desire finally to seize the occasion of showing himself; despite the tears of his wife and children, he took his gun to hasten to a banquet in the country

THE FEASTERS 1: The national guardsman Rifolard, not having left his home during the five days of June, was unable to resist the desire finally to seize the occasion of showing himself; despite the tears of his wife and children, he took his gun to hasten to a banquet in the country

French Types 11: The Restaurant owner: This Gentleman who wipes the tables, arranges the stools, greets everyone and gravely walks about with a serviette in his hand, he is the master of the establishment. He has from Fifteen to Fifty thousand pounds revenue... How much has Châteaubriant ?..

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

Leaving for Spain

OLD GENERAL GIULAY[sic] REPLACED BY YOUNG GENERAL SCHLCK[sic] / －Giulay proved to me by his military operations that he was blind... very well... , at least this one's only one-eyed!..

SENTIMENTS AND PASSIONS 4: This Gentleman, on leaving the Tavern where he has lost his last twenty francs, thinks of Rotschild [sic]; of fillets of St. Cloud; of selling his matress, ... of everything, except... not playing again

French Types 2: The tailor: He walks with an arched back, his shoulders like a coat-stand and his elbows turned outwards. His suits, cut in the latest fashion, often clash with his boots and hat, he nearly always has a very euphonical name such as Wahaterkermann or Pikprunmann

The Representatives Represented 25: Ferdinand Flocon; At first sight, you perhaps took this person for a Russian prince, slightly Cossack, which cannot have failed to afflict profoundly his quality as a watchful Republican. Ferdinand Flocon was for some weeks Minister of Agriculture, and one of his first acts was to shave his chin, formerly embellished with a full beard. He had even more excellent intentions, but lacked the time to carry them out

The Representatives Represented 25: Ferdinand Flocon; At first sight, you perhaps took this person for a Russian prince, slightly Cossack, which cannot have failed to afflict profoundly his quality as a watchful Republican. Ferdinand Flocon was for some weeks Minister of Agriculture, and one of his first acts was to shave his chin, formerly embellished with a full beard. He had even more excellent intentions, but lacked the time to carry them out

The Representatives Represented 25: Ferdinand Flocon; At first sight, you perhaps took this person for a Russian prince, slightly Cossack, which cannot have failed to afflict profoundly his quality as a watchful Republican. Ferdinand Flocon was for some weeks Minister of Agriculture, and one of his first acts was to shave his chin, formerly embellished with a full beard. He had even more excellent intentions, but lacked the time to carry them out

NEWS 29: A quarter of an hour after his death he was still alive

THE TEMPTATION OF THE NEW St. ANTHONY: In that particular time, a great and fat sinner named Véron felt himself touched by grace: having reflected that the Press was a priesthood, he became a hermit and retired to a wild place in the midst of the steepest mountains of Montmartre. There, he spent his days and nights in prayer, and as a means of mortification, imposed upon himself as a penitence the continual re-reading of the list of subscribers to the Constitutionnel. －For his only food, Véron took at long intervals a light fragment of Regnauld pâté. －The Devil, irritated by this edifying yet unexpected conversion employed different strategies to make St. Véron succumb to his temptations, but our noble coenobite knew how to resist those things which until recently had held so many charms for him: Satan, who had taken the form of the Constitutionnel in order come in person to tempt St. Véron, returned to the road for Paris, furious. －The anchorite of Montmartre has, since this time, been placed in the rank of the greatest saints which Parisian journalism honours, and is especially supplicated by the unfortunates who have a head cold

PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 24: Below the upper vignette: Every day he asks to speak, but when given the opportunity, never uses it; Below the lower vignette: Mr. de Montalembert in the Pulpit of the National Assembly

MONOMANIACS 4: THE AMATEUR GUITARIST: Defying the immense yawn / Wich he elicits by singing his verses / He will sing a ballad / About the remnants of the universe..

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..

That man there can be set free, he is no longer dangerous

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

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!

Los Caprichos: Even thus he cannot make her out