LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 56: A PAYMENT OF DIVIDEND: －Excuse me!... they're announcing in all the newspapers that the Capricorn insurance company is making arrangements to pay out a first dividend, and they don't warn that the dividend's of thirty sous per share!... then take a hackney cab; I haven't even got the means to tip my coachman!..

Caricaturana 82: Write: Sir, In reply to the letter which you did me the honour of writing, I regret to tell you that the shares of the European Society of Incombustible Boot Polish have been fully subscribed to. However, I have registered your request, and will have the honour of giving you immediate notice in the event of a new issue. I am etc. R.Macaire, Director... Print “withdraw 300,000[francs] and flood France with new shares... －What, we haven't disposed of a single share, we haven't had a single request, we haven't got a sou and you... －Bertrand! You're as thick as a plank... Do what I say and you'll see

NEWS 54: － They're right to leave that tower there standing... you'd have to go up in a balloon to demolish it!..

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!

NEWS 167: Do you think perhaps it's a spectator... well not even that!... it's the director!!!

NEWS 167: Do you think perhaps it's a spectator... well not even that!... it's the director!!!

A Bat that Still Can't Fly in the Evening

The Blue-stockings 11: Take that further away... impossible to work..

NEWS 172: The Napoleonic newspapers leaving the National Assembly after the vote declaring that General Cavaignac has deserved well of the country

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 40: －For three months, your grace has been posing always like that... now the portrait's no longer a likeness... it's no longer that!..

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 12: THE BAILIFF'S MAN: They call us enemies of liberty!... what are those young fellows there complaining about... they're being taken in a carriage, and they've got a page, at the back... there's a kind of one!

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!

TENANTS AND LANDLORDS 22: Is the account exact?... now you're going to ask me if I can give you a receipt... under the pretext that if one's rich one should always give something!..

NEWS 175: Tell me, Mister Colimard, is it true that now the government's going to force all journalists to wear a uniform and that they'll make [them] pay security to all subscribers?..

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

Childish Acts 5: I would have never thought that at my age..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 12: A day of the 1st performance

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 12: A day of the 1st performance

IN CHINA 13: －Here, look at that case..., it contains the American envoys who are going to Peking!... －You'd think that that carriage contained curious animals... －To be sure! if they are curious..., too bad for them, because they won't see much of the country they're travelling through!..

IN CHINA 13: －Here, look at that case..., it contains the American envoys who are going to Peking!... －You'd think that that carriage contained curious animals... －To be sure! if they are curious..., too bad for them, because they won't see much of the country they're travelling through!..

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!..

Bathers 25: Excuse me, Worshipful Mayor... Could you..

PARISIANS TYPES 30: －My God! Missus Bombec, what hit you? －Don't mention it,dear lady, the horror! the world's become so ferocious that I'd rather be the gatekeeper at the zoo. You know that Bezuchet on the fifth floor who tells everyone that her not-so great daughter, whose filling out nicely round the waist, has become Whatdropical. Me, I just said: oh yeh! －And that's the creature that... －by Jove, flew into my face

Caricatures of the Day: The bourgeois at the Salon: Let's see... What's that?... (reading from his catalogue) "No. 387. Portrait of Mr. B*** stock-broker"... well... well!... oh! how stupid I am... 386 is the portrait of Mr. B***, this is a portrait of a bull by Mr. Bracassat... I'd also say... that the idea of having yourself painted with horns as big as that... after that, you can't refuse a stock-broker anything

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