Ancient History 38: Mars and Venus. In this erotic snare / Seeing these lovers, all the gods were taken / By that famous Homeric laughter, / Reserved since that time for unfortunate husbands (Familiar quatrain by Mr. A...)

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 35: It's nevertheless there that I carved my love monogram... well[,] how it's risen... personally, I've got much smaller since!..

NEWS 28: － I told you just now that I wouldn't be annoyed if the Oriental affair put itself to rights. － Yes, and so? － Well, it's funny, but since I've drunk that Mars beer, I'd like it if we had a war

SKETCHES OF AUTUMN by DAUMIER 1: GRAPE-PICKING AT ARGENTEUIL －Ow! I found that that was not Beautiful that lacked Wery Well of.... countenance!..

SKETCHES OF THE THEATRE (7): The singer's mother. = And to think that that miserable old skinflint of a director sulks about giving sixty thousand francs a year to an angel who sings like That!

Ancient History 21: Marius at Minturnae. Admire the roguishness of this great General! / Seeing that he was going to be seized; / Across the reeds [and] into the slime he slid / And laughed with certainty in this swamp of FAST COLOUR (Historical pun by Mr. de Rothschild)

Ancient History 29: Telemachus and Mentor. Seeing his languorous pupil. / Burning for Eucharis with a fire always new / Mentor, with a punch, pitched him straight into the water / To make him abandon the island (Unique quatrain by Mr. Duponchel)

TENANTS AND LANDLOADS 7: －It seems to me that your house should make good earnings... －I really think so... I've made two BASEMENTS... and if by chance one of these lodging falls vacant, I'll grow mushrooms there

THE ALARMISTS AND ALARMED. 5: －Eh! so what’s new?... －Sir, whiting has become even dearer since yesterday!... －I always said that we were going to have a famine..

Papas 20: Oh! Sir... you shouldn't laugh at him like that..

NEWS 66: To think that there are people who, in weather like this, are cruel enough to put that dog out of doors!

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!..

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PRACTICES OF THE MERCHANTS OF PARIS 4: That fits your head like a glove!

Ancient History 34: Vulcan's threads. This nasty metal-worker, knowing that his wife / Talked a little too closely with Mars, / Forged pitiless snares / Gripping both of them as they chatted on the lawn (A bachelor D. M. F. P.)

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)

PARISIANS TYPES 30: －My God! Missus Bombec, what hit you? －Don't mention it,dear lady, the horror! the world's become so ferocious that I'd rather be the gatekeeper at the zoo. You know that Bezuchet on the fifth floor who tells everyone that her not-so great daughter, whose filling out nicely round the waist, has become Whatdropical. Me, I just said: oh yeh! －And that's the creature that... －by Jove, flew into my face

Sketch Taken by Daumier at the Salon 1(but numbered: “2”) : －This year yet more Venuses... always Venuses!... as if there were women made like that!..

SKETCHES OF EXPRESSIONS 6: My dear man, I congratulate you, your picture has a repturous effect!! －Yes, I find that myself, too

Sketches Taken by Daumier at the Exhibition 4: －Personally, what I like in the sculpture room is that you can always find somewhere to sit down!..

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT [second series]: Look here, then there's mister Godard who's just left the circus while moving his four storeys house... I wouldn't like to be the porter for that landlord!..

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..

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

Strangers in Paris 4: Some slight purchases: Oh!...the beautiful shawls... would you buy me one, dear?... －What!... why didn't you say straightaway that you wanted everything, and we could have started by simply buying up the whole la Ville de Paris shop!..

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!..