MONOMANIACS 8: THE COFFEE-LOVER: The half-cup easily becomes second nature; one finds a number of people who, like the lover above, have made themselves an immutable law to take their coffee, in order to facilitate digestion, even though their means do not allow them to dine. It is agreed that existence would be too bitter without chicory

MONOMANIACS 8: THE COFFEE-LOVER: The half-cup easily becomes second nature; one finds a number of people who, like the lover above, have made themselves an immutable law to take their coffee, in order to facilitate digestion, even though their means do not allow them to dine. It is agreed that existence would be too bitter without chicory

MONOMANIACS 4: THE AMATEUR GUITARIST: Defying the immense yawn / Wich he elicits by singing his verses / He will sing a ballad / About the remnants of the universe..

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

NEWS 18: All the Parisian women who own dogs are following the example given to them by Madam de Saint Frémont and are coming to withdraw their subscription to the Constitutionnel

MONOMANIACS 5: THE REGULATOR: The word regulator normally applying to a type of machine, may wall also be applied to the individual above. One finds in Paris, said to be the most spiritual town in the most spiritual country in the Universe, several dozen particular men whose sole intellectual occupation is to regulate, each day, their watch on the shot of midday from the canon of the Royal Palace. Here, gunpowder makes those happy who will never set the world on fire

MONOMANIACS 5: THE REGULATOR: The word regulator normally applying to a type of machine, may wall also be applied to the individual above. One finds in Paris, said to be the most spiritual town in the most spiritual country in the Universe, several dozen particular men whose sole intellectual occupation is to regulate, each day, their watch on the shot of midday from the canon of the Royal Palace. Here, gunpowder makes those happy who will never set the world on fire

MONOMANIACS 1: THE BEASTOPHILE: The supreme happiness of the Beastophile is to make in his home a small menagerie in the bosom of which he spends his life. One can truly apply to him the proverb: “Tell me whom you associate with, [and] I’ll tell you who you are.”

Family Proverbs 2: Oh! Monster, you allow yourself to tell me that I'm an old melon, and that my hair is a wig: spare the rod and spoil the child!..

The young little grebes are too large to ride their parent's back

When I went to give blessings, I loved to talk to the women and to hear their joys and their sorrows

MUSICAL SKETCHES 1: Parisian music lovers taking advantage of Rossini's sojourn in Italy to allow themselves to perform a bit of William Tell

THE EXHIBITION OF ANIMALS 6: － Oh look, what funny cowherds... they're dressed in a strange way. － They've probably put on carnival costumes to distract their animals along the way..

NEWS 37: The closer I get to the sun, the more I shiver... surely that star doesn't warrant the reputation for heat that it's been given... I see that my horse misses the ground!

News 184: To say that Proudhon does not want..

THE EATERS OF HORSEFLESH 12: Great revolt of the rats of Montfaucon who do not want to let their food be carried off by the scholars

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 48: －They said to the Government that it wasn't progressing, so naturally it got the idea of taking all the railways!... －That's wanting to go too fast!..

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

PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 17: Below the upper vignette: The day poor Théobald learned he'd been ousted; Below the lower vignette: The French enjoying their right to do sentry duty at the doors of the National Assembly

JOURNEY TO CHINA 19: CHINESE WORRIORS. All Chinese men have the right, from six to eight times a year, to carry a rifle, a cartridge-pouch, and even to wear a fur cap; then they apply themselves, more or less voluntarily to night patrols which have as their goal the maintenance of public peace. Only it happens quite often that the chief named KA-PO-RAL takes infinite trouble to prevent his warriors singing at the tops of their voices “mother GO-DI-CHON” or other Chinese ballads, and it is by waking with a start that the good citizens learn that their rest is being watched over

The Blue-stockings 20: Oh woe!... to have dreamed... a husband

JOURNEY TO CHINA 9: A CHINESE DANCE.One is greatly mistaken if one believes the Chinese people to be giddy, joyful and the friend of pleasure: they are on the contrary serious and morose, since their greatest amusement consists in a type of lugubrious walking in which the men and women walk one in front of the other, or one beside the other, and seem to be saying among themselves: brother we should die! In order also to point to the philosophical intention behind this ceremony, the opposite of dancing, they call it: Counter-dancing

The Blue-stockings 27: It's curious... many ideas come to me... that..

THRILLS OF THE HUNT 13: －It's no use their having told me their guns are charged only with small shot, it's no less deeply upsetting to have my head aimed at like this for the next three hours!... I tremble in case they dream they meet a rabbit!..

NEWS 179: The soothsayers of diplomacy not daring to broach the Prussian-bird in order to know what to believe