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

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

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!

PARISIAN TYPES 44: Citizen grocer, warrior pure and without stain, Once a corporal, he wore a moustache; Dreamed of a future of large bullions And since that time, is the terror of urchins

On It May Stay His Eye [from "The Blue Guitar"]

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

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..

Parliamentary Scenes 5: At the Tribune

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)

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!

Bullfight, Plate 28: The Brave Rendon Wounds the Bull with His Pike; in So Doing, He Met His Death in the Bullring at Madrid

TRAGIC PHYSIOGNOMIES 5: ATHALIE “To the birds' young he gives food” “And his bounty to nature overall!”

PARLIAMENTARY IDYLLS 12: Cupid, a shrewd god, but full of vanity, / Bounds upon the table at the risk of a sprain, / In order to prove that his figure is wholly beautiful, / Between the two candlesticks he shows them his torso!

[PARISIAN SKETCHES, － BY H. DAUMIER] (AT THE CIRCUS. She is his daughter: or the art of destroying his children and making denials of it.)

NEWS 12: What the devil is it that curbs his appetite

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

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

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

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