NEWS 99: IMPRESSIONS OF A JOURNEY BY A GREAT POET: “One of the curiosities of Frankfurt that will soon disappear, I fear, is the butcher's shop. it [sic] is impossible to see a more splendid pile of fresh flesh. The bloody butchers and pink butchers’ wives chat gracefully under garlands of legs of mutton. A red stream, its colour barely altered by two gushing fountains, runs and smokes in the middle of the street!” (The Rhine by Victor Hugo Volume 2 page 357)

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NEWS 189: John Bull swears that he is attached to the son of Theodore by an indissoluble tie

NEWS 189: John Bull swears that he is attached to the son of Theodore by an indissoluble tie

SKETCHES BY DAUMIER 3: -Your client is a scoundrel who's murdered six women, and you're counting on extenuating circumstances. -Why of course!... the jury is composed entirely of married men

SKETCHES BY DAUMIER 3: -Your client is a scoundrel who's murdered six women, and you're counting on extenuating circumstances. -Why of course!... the jury is composed entirely of married men

TRIVIAL THINGS 6: -Is it to you or to the Gentleman who's your brother that I have the honour of speaking? -It is to my brother, Sir

TRIVIAL THINGS 6: -Is it to you or to the Gentleman who's your brother that I have the honour of speaking? -It is to my brother, Sir

[NEWS 70]:  THE TREE OF LIBERTY: -What! not a friend to shout: death-trap!

[NEWS 70]: THE TREE OF LIBERTY: -What! not a friend to shout: death-trap!

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The Hundred-and-one Robert-Macaire [Caricaturana] 100: Mr. Daumier, your Robert-Macaire series is a charming thing!... It is the exact portrayal of the pilfering of our age... It is the faithful portrait of the crowd of rascals you find everywhere, in business, in politics, in finance, everywhere! everywhere!!... The cheats should hate you... But the estimation of honest people is yours... Have you still not received the cross of honour?... It's shocking!!..

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 9:  Having had the unfortunate idea of going to take a siesta by the river bank

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TRAGIC PHYSIOGNOMIES 3: ATHALIE “But I found no less than a horrible mingling “Of bone and flesh murdered and dragged throught the mire...!”

TRAGIC PHYSIOGNOMIES 3: ATHALIE “But I found no less than a horrible mingling “Of bone and flesh murdered and dragged throught the mire...!”

SKETCHES OF WINTER 2: Going to sample what it is convenient to call, even in the month of December, the pleasures of the hunt!..

SKETCHES OF WINTER 2: Going to sample what it is convenient to call, even in the month of December, the pleasures of the hunt!..

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NEWS 85: -This trunk is no one's, therefore it ought to belong to us

NEWS 299: POOR FRANCE!... THE TRUNK IS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING, BUT THE ROOTS HOLD FAST!

NEWS 299: POOR FRANCE!... THE TRUNK IS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING, BUT THE ROOTS HOLD FAST!

PARISIAN SKETCHES 7: In contemplation before the opera's ship, - at least it is not before that of the porte St. Martin, - nor indeed that of the ambigu [sic], - anyway, what is certain is that they are gazing upon a vessel

PARISIAN SKETCHES 7: In contemplation before the opera's ship, - at least it is not before that of the porte St. Martin, - nor indeed that of the ambigu [sic], - anyway, what is certain is that they are gazing upon a vessel

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The Disasters of War: This is worse

PEOPLE OF THE LAW 24: -What a pity that charming little woman didn't ask me to defend her... how I would have argued that her husband is a rascal!..

PEOPLE OF THE LAW 24: -What a pity that charming little woman didn't ask me to defend her... how I would have argued that her husband is a rascal!..

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NEWS 45: ABDUCTION OF A GIRL-SPIRIT OF THE AIR. - Come, come, Mr. Godard, I'm frozen, let me into the gondola... - That's impossible, since we'll be seen by Paris... - But I've got a frightful head-cold!... - All I can promise is to wipe your nose, as soon as we get into a cloud!..

Ancient History 31: The fall of Icarus. As the sun roasted his wings, / His old scoundrel of a father, inventor of this contrivance, / Said, watching him fall through the eternal vaults: / Assuredly, this is no good (A poet who travels only by carriage)

Ancient History 31: The fall of Icarus. As the sun roasted his wings, / His old scoundrel of a father, inventor of this contrivance, / Said, watching him fall through the eternal vaults: / Assuredly, this is no good (A poet who travels only by carriage)

Musicians of Paris 1: Farewell!... by the grace of God..

Musicians of Paris 1: Farewell!... by the grace of God..

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BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 2: THE GLEANER: What, not a needle,... not a handkerchief!... there's no longer any means of doing your job... it's the banker's wives, they don't leave anything lying around!..

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