The Good Bourgeois 77: Inconvenient to have married a wife who posesses a talent for[sic] accomplishments

The Good Bourgeois 78: The day when it is necessary to make a conquest

The Good Bourgeois 3: So! What do you think of me in my new uniform...I think I ought to have a fairly stylish little look!..

The Good Bourgeois 3: So! What do you think of me in my new uniform...I think I ought to have a fairly stylish little look!..

The Good Bourgeois 8: I live a bit high up... but... I enjoy a pretty view!

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 64 : Inconvenient to have a relative called Babylas, which obliges [you] to go and take him a bouquet on 24 January

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!..

TRIVIAL THINGS 7: －Come to dinner, my wife dines in town: we will be fellows together. －Ah,deuce,I have a migraine! (aside) and his wife who is waiting for me at home!

NEWS 225: －To think that with the stone from all these pedestals you could have built a good dozen primary schools

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 91: A gentleman who wants to give himself the satisfaction of having his [death]mask

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 91: A gentleman who wants to give himself the satisfaction of having his [death]mask

NEWS 106: － Miss prud'homme [sic], I have learnt that the English are going to come again to contend for the Paris grand prix, my patriotism makes it a duty for me to prepare for the struggle

MEMORIES OF THE PEACE CONGRESS 6: Universal Peace haveing been decreed, the honorable sir Cobden [sic] finds a way of using the generals who crossed their arms

MONOMANIACS 3: THE EXPERT: There are Experts and Experts, as there are Uncouth Peolple and Uncouth People. Firtly [there is] the Expert who knows (this is the rarest type); then the Expert who knows nothing, or knows stupid and useless things, that is to say, less than nothing. The Expert of these different categories passes for a profound, serious man; he is in a very good position, and makes a reputation in the world, like all who are hollow. He passes his days full of pleasures and free from failings, except that he is subject to the Cross of Honoour and the Academy

MONOMANIACS 3: THE EXPERT: There are Experts and Experts, as there are Uncouth Peolple and Uncouth People. Firtly [there is] the Expert who knows (this is the rarest type); then the Expert who knows nothing, or knows stupid and useless things, that is to say, less than nothing. The Expert of these different categories passes for a profound, serious man; he is in a very good position, and makes a reputation in the world, like all who are hollow. He passes his days full of pleasures and free from failings, except that he is subject to the Cross of Honoour and the Academy

PARISIAN MEN IN 1852. 9: NEW YEAR'S DAY. The door-keeper. － Sir, I wish you a good and happy one. The proprieter. － Very good, thank you! The door-keeper. － Good and happy for the man who wrings your neck, you miserable old skinflint!..

Caricaturana 48: A candidate: Whom do you need?... A man of probity, conscientious, a serious man, a manufacturer, a man who doesn't need the government in order to become rich, a man familiar with the law, who knows it well, from experience, from long experience... A long experience of the law... You couldn't make a better choice, take my... take my honourable friend

JOURNEY TO CHINA 8: WOULD YOU MARRY... IN CHINA. A Chinese woman who brings nothing to her husband places the household in difficulties because her clothes are very costly. / A Chinese woman who brings something, places the household in embarrassing circumstances because her clothes cost more. / A Chinese woman who brings many things places the household in misery: her whims devour everything!

JOURNEY TO CHINA 4: THE SEAFARERS' HOTEL. He who says hotel-keeper －in China－ and above all in a seaport, says patent thief... if you bring to his notice that he counts dinners that you have not ordered －errands that you have not had [him] make －waiters who have not served you －expenses for transporting luggage for which you have paid, he replies graciously: Suh, we always count that, always... that is the Chinese habit!... Editer's note: This habit also exists in certain French sea ports

Ancient History 50: The clemency of Minos. Happy the pale human, who in this black refuge / Arrives, while Minos reads his Charivari; / He is sure to be forgiven, for we know that all judges / Are disarmed when they have laughed (Poetic little advertisement)

Conjugal Manners 37: The well of Grenelle. And these rogues of chemists who say that it does some good to bathe children in the well of Grenelle; here's poor Dodophe who's gone greener than an apple; I don't know whether my son's a lizard or a toad!!

The Representatives Represented 45: Léon Faucher: The political enemies of Léon Faucher claim that this Minister for the Interior has not all the exterior graces. As for ourselves, who are among his most fanatical supporters, we categorically state, against all others, that Léon Faucher is fat, beautiful, good, gentle

The Representatives Represented 45: Léon Faucher: The political enemies of Léon Faucher claim that this Minister for the Interior has not all the exterior graces. As for ourselves, who are among his most fanatical supporters, we categorically state, against all others, that Léon Faucher is fat, beautiful, good, gentle

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 30: －Oh my dear, when you've got a dog you should never have a husband!... only yesterday mine had a thing about refusing a chiken wing to Mimire, he only wanted give him a leg!... －There need to be men who're fierce!..