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

News 52: 1st Blue-stocking －Let us profit from the occasion..

TODAY'S PHILANTHROPISTS 5: －Madam... it is not enough only to have danced for the benefit of those poor Poles... let us be Philanthropists to the very end... let us take supper for their profit!..

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!

A partner of a pair rejected a sprig of Cryptomeria japonica (L.f.) D.Don, which the other brought into the nest

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)

PARLIAMENTARY IDYLLS 9: Come to play in the field, /A roguish urchin said to him; / Barrot, from good humour / Does not suspect until too late! / In vain he strives, / But once you have allowed yourself to be deceived / There, as elsewhere, a lost position, / Is difficult to regain! Moral stanzas By General d'Hautpoul. (cultivating the Muses in secret.)

Caricaturana 34: What the Devil! Let us respect propriety! But steward, take care with your invitations!... You are missing out all the proprieties!... Why, you have on your list a Mr. Grippardin, a disreputable man!... A Mr. Durand, whose fortune comes from I don't know where!... What the Devil! Mr.Bertrand, if I'd let you do this, you'd end up by making me keep low company

PEOPLE OF THE LAW 32: －Let them speak a little ill of you... let them say it... in just a moment I myself will insult your adversary's whole family!..

A Photograph of the Plastic Model That I Can't Put Together after Eight Years Because I Want Make a Neat Job of It

Ancient History 26: The Augean stables. For a proud hero to make of himself a cleaner, / Is, for Hercules, difficult to swallow, / But as a proverb says: / One does not argue about sewers or colours (Unpublished pun by Mr. Delessert)

Ancient History 26: The Augean stables. For a proud hero to make of himself a cleaner, / Is, for Hercules, difficult to swallow, / But as a proverb says: / One does not argue about sewers or colours (Unpublished pun by Mr. Delessert)

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.)

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!

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 8: THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL FRIEND: Ah! dear friend; how stout you've become... let me embrace you! let me embrace you! (the instant after, it was nothing but a mistake and the gentleman discovers that his extempore friend wished to make the acquaintance of... his watch!)

Parisian Freebooters 2: The Municipal Pawnshop’s Pawn-ticket: Sir, the freebooter says to you, I haven’t got the means to redeem my watch, and this evening I’m leaving for my home region. You buy the pawn-ticket, you redeem the watch. It was pledged for 20 f[rancs] and is worth a hundred sous

PARLIAMENTARY IDYLLS 4: FLORA AND ZEPHYR (DE LA MEURTHE.): Lightly he balances himself / On a foot barely skimming the water's surface:/ Flora who admires him in silence / Says to herself. / Ah! God damn it all, how beautiful he is! (Translated from Anacreon by Ratapoil, retired police colonel, member of Châlons sur Marne society of literature and of the society of the Tenth-of-December in Paris)

A partner of a pair accepted a sprig of Cerasus x yedoensis (Matsum.) A. V. Vassil, which the other brought into the nest

NEWS 50: THE FUSION. Of course the rogues let you believe when you come in that the phenomenon is alive

SKETCH OF THE DAY 28: You know the fat deputy from opposite, who's a representative at 25 francs a day, well, this morning I read off the newspaper that they'd given him a commission! －A commission pays generally seventy five centimes without even a written decision... on that day he should've made 25 francs 15 sous, what luck!

Affectation 2: I said to myself: do they think we're from the rue des Lombards?... There's a little air about you which is not that of a confectioner at all

Hachikagetsu itsumobisukettowodashitemoraukanwochantooboeteite,hoshigattewatashitemorauto,jibundesassatoakeru

Hachikagetsu itsumobisukettowodashitemoraukanwochantooboeteite,hoshigattewatashitemorauto,jibundesassatoakeru

You see, Rouget, being a soldier flatters you..

NEWS 24: － What... the paper says that it's rumoured in the Stock-Exchange that the Russians have crossed the Prut!... － Well! Mister Panelet... all the same... because the Russians have begun hostilities that's no reason for you not to finish off shaving