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!..

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!..

NEWS 110: － Take you to the Madeleine, what nonsense! I'm going to take you to the Zoo, I'm invited for dinner near there

PARISIANS TYPES 6: Well there you are, what've you got there? －Don't talk to me about it; we've got people to stay and I've just done my shopping

NEWS 66: A REPLASTERING:－ My little chap, you demolish [it] in vain!...I’m going to replaster that very thing!..

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

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

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 18: The way in which you go on one can clearly see that money means nothing to you! if I left you to your own devices, my money would soon be squandered... －Bah! father, it's not for yourself that you accumulate money... －Do you think perhaps it is for you, no, no, with the kind of life you lead I will live longer than you... －My dear father, you only have unpleasant things to say to me..

TRIVIAL THINGS 3: － Come! my young friend,shake me firmly by the hand...that's good. －(aside)Oh! there, there now! "The friendship of a strong man is a flail of the Gods"

TRIVIAL THINGS 3: － Come! my young friend,shake me firmly by the hand...that's good. －(aside)Oh! there, there now! "The friendship of a strong man is a flail of the Gods"

(PARISIANS TYPES 27): Oh! [it's] absolutely as if you were there, the big woman's taking off her corset, the little one's hunting for a flea

NEWS 9: －Mr. Cabassol, how can you still take up arms, after having attended three meetings of the Peace Congress! －Precisely, I’m mounting guard to avoid being at war with my sergeant-major

NEWS 9: －Mr. Cabassol, how can you still take up arms, after having attended three meetings of the Peace Congress! －Precisely, I’m mounting guard to avoid being at war with my sergeant-major

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

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

Strangers in Paris 3: What is called dining in a restaurant: －Waiter!...I've been in your establishment for an hour and a quarter without having a chair...and you've still only given the tooth-picks to my wife who's dying of hunger... you'll make me lose my normal posture, and I'll end up with my feet in the dish... do you understand, waiter! －There now, Sir... there there now, there there!!!

NEWS 39: WHO'LL KNOCK DOWN THE REPUBLIC?... －Too high that target there, sirs, for you to hit!

...You have the floor, explain yourself, you are free to do so!

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 53: AT A 32-SOUS-RESTAURANT. －Waiter, a chicken with cress?... －Sir, we've no chicken left... but if you like, I'll get you a large portion of cress!..

Strangers in Paris 1: The arrival: What, no room!... －Not even for your hat-box... －What about in the sitting-room? －Twenty one Englishmen are in there... －In the attic?... －I've put eleven Savoyards in there... －In the celler?... －Fifteen Polish people have set up home... －Oh! hang it...oh! damnation... oh! Good God!...are we going to spend the night by the side of a milestone?... －That's what you'd better do, because then the night patrol will get you out of trouble quickly by taking you to sleep at the Prefecture of Police's office, Saint Martin cell!... specially reserved for the homeless and poodles without papers!..

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 8: Dramatic farce. Steady on! －Steady on!... don't raise the curtain, I'm not performing... －(The director, hastening, frightened) You're joking, my dear Macaire, you're joking, aren't you? －Not at all, not at all... I won't act... －You won’t play a similar trick at the theatre, on the author, on your poor comrades... －Brrrrt! you don't keep to your engagements, [so] I break mine, give me the forfeit... －I don't keep to my engagements!! －No, you should pay me ready cash, and you owe me... －What ? －You owe me 75 centimes

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 8: Dramatic farce. Steady on! －Steady on!... don't raise the curtain, I'm not performing... －(The director, hastening, frightened) You're joking, my dear Macaire, you're joking, aren't you? －Not at all, not at all... I won't act... －You won’t play a similar trick at the theatre, on the author, on your poor comrades... －Brrrrt! you don't keep to your engagements, [so] I break mine, give me the forfeit... －I don't keep to my engagements!! －No, you should pay me ready cash, and you owe me... －What ? －You owe me 75 centimes

NEWS 108: －My dear Holsteiner, vote I beg you. －Excuse me... Do you reckon on making me [like that place] there!

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!..

SKETCHES OF AUTUMN 2: IMPRESSIONS OF THE GRAPE-HARVESTS. －What... you get in there with bare feet!... －Well!... you shouldn't put polished shoes in there!..