Strangers in Paris 5: An obliging guide: －Excuse me, Sir... do you know the most direct route to go to la Bourse? －Certainly, with the greatest pleasure... please come this way... you take the left side... follow it all the way along... and la bourse[sic] is there... right at the tip of my finger!..

Bathers 25: Excuse me, Worshipful Mayor... Could you..

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!..

NEWS 103: LE CONSTITUTIONEL [sic] AND THE WANDERING JEW: Let’s be on our way, old chap, on our way... if even I can’t make you walk it’s certainly because your illness is too constitutional!..

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

NEWS 269: Then don't look over there, you well know that it's a puppet

PARISIANS TYPES 29: Discomfort in talking to people who have a mania for putting thier story into action. －Yes dear Sir, do you think that the rrrrascal was allowed to laugh in my face. You know I won't stand for that. So, I punched him... there, like that, do you see, and I shook you... there, like that... vigorously

SKETCHES OF THE HUNT 7: －Well!... do you intend to stay there? －Certainly not!... I was waiting so that you could carry me to the village on your back... －No thanks, for a league and a half from here!... are you mad?... －Come!... look here, my friend... act as though you've killed a roe-deer and you've got to carry it home!..

TRIVIAL THINGS 10: You; my friend! how did you know I'm a widower; after twenty years of hard lab...[our]... no to setting up house: you see I'm beginning to recover myself and you're suggesting to me a second marriage...Ragoulot, will you let go of me!

Strangers in Paris 7: A slight queue at the door of the Palais de l’Industrie

Conjugal Manners 34: I should have bet on it ... instead of taking him to see Séraphin, you take him to play ... It's already bad enough for grown-ups; poor little dear! ... －－ Don't worry, Madam, that's the way children amuse themselves!

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!..

THE UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION 19: － say, husband, is this here, the buffet?... it looks jolly appetising to me, I'll certainly have somefink!..

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!

Strangers in Paris 2: The indispensable visit to the tailor of the Palais Royal

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!..

Strangers in Paris 13: A rustic ball of Paris

Conjugal Manners 38: ﾐﾐ Oh! You think your wife doesn't look after you well enough, you rogue; when you spend everything, scoundrel!...Well, I'll make myself kiss-curls, rascal!... and I'll buy bonnets... and I'll make you eat corks, rascal... ﾐﾐ My angel, I'm wrong, you are a good housewife...but you're breaking everything

Strangers in Paris 17: Shops of greater and greater enormity －Can you show me, please, where the counter for cotton bonnets is?... －At the end of the 9th aisle on the right, then the 4th on the left, and once you’ve arrived at the 15th counter, ask for cotton bonnets; there they’ll show you clearly the way you should take to get there... －Oh! damnation... I’m very angry at having left my cab at the door of your shop!..

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 55: －I beg your pardon if I didn't spot you straight away... I was unable to recognise you among the other roses in the garden!..

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

Conjugal Manners 26: Eh, Eh! little rascal, you will make brats, you already have the eyes of a scoundrel! You'll be like your father

THE URCHIN OF PARIS AT THE TUILERIES: Crikey!... how you sink into it

Parisian Emotions 29: It's annoying! That passes before... your nose: and you go on your way singing... “Alas! She fled like a shadow!...”