PARLIAMENTARY IDYLLS 1: THE HARVEST: As by your efforts the piled sheaves / Raise the pyramid with pointed top,/ Clyto, the housewife of calm and gentle bearing,/ Steeps the cabbage soup in the earthenware amphora (The Georgics, inedited translation by Mr. Ponsard)

SKETCHES OF EXPRESSIONS 30: You'll see!...you'll see! that'll stop the blood as if by hand!..

PARLIAMENTARY IDYLLS 2: THE INDISCREET FAUNS: Come, Cholë come my sister; / amenable to my entreaties, / The virgin with the golden quiver has rid these glades./ Of fauns and Taschereaus./ Thus speaks Nisa. Laughing between the boughs / Two hidden Taschereaus turn upon those hips. /The ardour of their treacherous gaze. (Short-lived Poems by Count de Mantalembert.)

NEWS 105: THE REJUVENATION OF THE CONSTITUTIONEL [sic] FOLLOWING THE REJUVENATION OF AESON: I read in Mr. de Chompre's book that the aged Aeson was in earlier times perfectly rejuvenated by making him simmer in a stew-pot with a multitude of small spices, such as marshmallow roots, lizard, sticks of liquorice and toads... but the precise recipe of this stew has been lost... I have imagined new ingredients, but unfortunately they are devilishly expensive! I think I would have done better to preserve my old fellow by －having him stuffed by Mr. Gannat!

【真面目な考古学講演会で】埴輪が歌って踊ってみた

Funerary Monument for the Durio Family: Sorrow healed by Memories

Ancient History 41: Hippolytus pierced by Cupid

Ancient History 47: Pygmalion. Oh triumph of arts! what was your surprise, / Great scupltor, when you saw your marble come alive, / And with a chaste and gentle manner lean forward / To ask for a pinch [of snuff]. (Count Siméon)

Ancient History 43: Œdipus at the Spinx's. This ugly animal with the head of an antiquary, / Said to him: Why, Sir, can you not count / On a pyramid? Then without hesitation / Œdipus replied: It's because they are near Cairo? You can be grateful for an old pun (Lesson by Mr. Raoul-Rochette)

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!

All are happy at the big party. Never before had eunuchs seen so big a party as the one for Ayesha

THE ALARMISTS AND ALARMED. 7: I think they're beating the call to arms... Adolphe don't go... inthe name of the children we could have had!..

THE BACHELOR'S DAY 7: ONE O'CLOCK: A walk in the Luxembourg: Go on scoundrel. gulp it down! you'll see what it's like to be thrown into the water by a r... r... r... ras... scal like you!!

Looking at "The Three Brothers" rocks by a prisoner-dug tunnel: Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky

PEOPLE OF THE LAW 34: －Lost again in the Royal Court... and he's moaning as if he hadn't still got the High Court of Appeal!..

PARLIAMENTARY IDYLLS 12: Cupid, a shrewd god, but full of vanity, / Bounds upon the table at the risk of a sprain, / In order to prove that his figure is wholly beautiful, / Between the two candlesticks he shows them his torso!

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)

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 63: THE NEIGHBOURS BEFORE THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE: Well, I won the case all the same, and you won't be so stuck-up now, Mrs. Pimbèche... because the Justice of the Peace has sentenced you to go back to your house which backs on to mine!..

Ancient History 20: Alexander and Diogenes. The Sage who dressed in the simple appearance / Of a rascal smoking his short, thick pipe, / Said to the hero who surveyed him: / Scram out of my sunlight! (Song by Mr. Eugène Sue)

Ancient History 42: Telemachus interrogated by the wise men

Allegory: Red Tree Not Reddened by the Sun

AT MILAN －Ho! hey!!!.... ho! hey!!... sirs..... this time you're forgetting to rescue the safe!!!..

Ancient History 46: The mother of the Graccus

Album des Charges du Jour: EUNUCHS DISCHARGED BY THE BEY TUNIS.[sic] －What's going to become of us?... here we are[,] dismissed!... －There's nothing for it but to become coachmen in Constantinople!..

PARLIAMENTARY IDYLLS 13: Before the session opens anew. / Let us harvest the fruits that Pomona grants us. / Come, says Thiers to Molé, let us make a store / Of a few apples of discord