The Representatives Represented / The Legislative Assembly 33: Jules, Marquess de Lasteyrie (pronounced Lasteyrie-eye): Formerly a member of the opposition, now the enemy of lights. Dazzled by the too sudden appearence of the Republic's sun, Jules de Lasteyrie has pledged himself to the eye-shade of le Constitutionnel

NEWS 163: THE NAPOLEONIC CONSTITUTIONNEL: The Constitutionnel places itself heroically at the head of the Frankish corps recruited from the rue de Valois and the rue de Poitiers to uphold the cause of Prince Louis

The legislative stomach: View of the ministerial benches of the uncorrupted Chamber of 1834

Mlle. Etienne-Joconde-Cunégonde-Bécassine of le Constitutionnel, indignant, suffocated, ruffled and Rococo-fied at the performance of Antony in which that rascal Dumas had the immorality to mock the noble Bécassine family of le Constitutionnel

The Representatives Represented / The Legislative Assembly 5: Alex. Ch. Henri de Tocqueville

The Representatives Represented / The Legislative Assembly 5: Alex. Ch. Henri de Tocqueville

NEWS 138: THE LEGISLATIVE ARENAS. OR The ruins of the Chamber in 2870

NEWS 138: THE LEGISLATIVE ARENAS. OR The ruins of the Chamber in 2870

NEWS 18: All the Parisian women who own dogs are following the example given to them by Madam de Saint Frémont and are coming to withdraw their subscription to the Constitutionnel

The Representatives Represented / The Legislative Assembly 27: Pierre Antoine Berryer

The Representatives Represented / The Legislative Assembly 27: Pierre Antoine Berryer

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

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!..

PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 6: Below the upper vignette: The bussiness of the representatives especially charged, in the assembly, with representing seducers.... ; Below the lower vignette: Lagrange delivering himself of a sparkle of eloquence by becoming too carried away

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!

The Representatives Represented / The Legislative Assembly 37: General Ducos de Lahitte: Portrait of this Minister of Foreign Affairs, as he appears to simple mortals, on those occasions － seldom less rare than solemn － when he comes forth in the tribune to show us his eloquence and his moustache. Above all, his moustache achieves the greater effect

NEWS 37: A STUBBORN OLD MAN. －Clerk of the court, would you be kind enough to tell me when they'll punish the individual who, at the place du Havre, put my eye in the condition in which you see it. －But sir, it's unthinkable that you should continue to wear such an eye-patch when we've proven to you that no one was punched in the place du Havre... do you know that the ex-members of the Society of the Tenth of December would have the right to demand compensation for the harm that you're doing to their reputation!

PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 14: Below the upper vignette: Lucien Murat and Antony Thouron, whom they persist in calling Thouret, we don't know why; Below the lower vignette: The President's hat serving as a snuffer of discussion

The Representatives Represented / The Legislative Assembly 13: Victor Hugo: You have just finished asking him a serious question, he gives himself up to sombre reflections - only the sombre reflection may illuminate the serious question! - he is also the most sombre of all the serious great men!

The Representatives Represented / The Legislative Assembly 13: Victor Hugo: You have just finished asking him a serious question, he gives himself up to sombre reflections - only the sombre reflection may illuminate the serious question! - he is also the most sombre of all the serious great men!

PARLIAMENTARY IDYLLS 4: FLORA AND ZEPHYR (DE LA MEURTHE.): Lightly he balances himself / On a foot barely skimming the water's surface:/ Flora who admires him in silence / Says to herself. / Ah! God damn it all, how beautiful he is! (Translated from Anacreon by Ratapoil, retired police colonel, member of Châlons sur Marne society of literature and of the society of the Tenth-of-December in Paris)

NEWS 110: －Great Prince Muley, son of Muley, do you deign to place yourself in the shade beneath this object... the Englishman who had the kindness to make over this object to me for a hundred gold pieces told me that it was of excellent use in all the storms of life... －Let me be... it's useless... the day when the French took away my parasol, I caught sunstroke from which I shall never recover!..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 93: THE DEVILISH SEDUCERS: －Did you see how that little woman looked at us out of the corner of her eye as she passed... it's only at our age that you can truly please women!..

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 12: THE BAILIFF'S MAN: They call us enemies of liberty!... what are those young fellows there complaining about... they're being taken in a carriage, and they've got a page, at the back... there's a kind of one!