NEWS 330: View of Paris since they have played the famous moral comedy entitled THE STOCK EXCHANGE

NEWS 332: Sadness of the butchers of Paris since they have been forbidden rejoicing

NEWS 1: Mister Gogo and the newsmongers of the Stock Exchange

NEWS 80: New positions taken up by the Russians, since they have had to fight dysentery

NEWS 163: Project for statues to ornament the Peristyle of the Stock Exchange

NEWS 86. －Snow, some real snow... I haven't seen any in Paris since 1822... that makes me thirty years' younger!

NEWS 385: An indispensable procaution which Parisians take when they leave their homes, even in broad daylight, since they have been told by Mr. Babinet that the sun might be extinguished from ome moment to the next

NEWS 119: A PANIC AT THE STOCK EXCHANGE. Shares are offered in vain, everyone avoids investing in them

NEWS 27: NEWS FROM THE STOCK EXCHANGE. －The Emperor of Russia has entered Constantinople! －And then what? －He's furious, he didn't find the sultan who'd entered St. Petersburg on the very same day

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

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

NEWS 214: － They're talking about holding new elections. － This time before giving our votes to one of the candidates, we'll have him visited by the doctor so that afterwards they don't declare him invalid

NEWS 25: － Yes, mister Rifolet, they say that the Cossacks appear to be marching to Constantinople only the better to fool us.. in reality, they're on the way to Paris... personally, I've taken all my precautions, I've already carefully hidden all my packets of candles

NEWS 24: A RECONCILIATION (A scene from high comedy): －I embrace you, but still hold a grudge against you! － I press you to my heart, but you’ll pay for it!

NEWS 24: A RECONCILIATION (A scene from high comedy): －I embrace you, but still hold a grudge against you! － I press you to my heart, but you’ll pay for it!

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!..

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)

[NEWS] MR. PRUDHOMME － My son, remember this memorable day on which you have seen demolished forever the wall of the custom's post... remember that sooner or later, philosophy, the product of human reason will similarly overturn the barriers of social prejudices!... LITTLE ADOLPHE － Yes, papa!... but I say..., papa,... why are they rebuilding them a bit further away?..

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.)

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!

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 10: THE CHIEF ADMINISTRATOR OF THE EMPIRE: Deuce, deuce! I've taken advantage of Véry, Véfour, the Café Anglais, I've disappeared without paying, on the pretext of an important post I'm waiting for... here am I descended to 32 sous dinners and they give me my bill... I shall have to change my standing... I'm going to play the banker who's forgotten his purse

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 22: THE CLOTHES SELLER: “Closes to sell!... any hats, shoes, old clothes to sell!” This trade fourishes at carnival time in the vicinity of the schools of law and medicine: the student willingly sells his wardrobe to get himself a stevedore's costume, a wife, a small thimble-full of champagne and limitless tittle-tattle!

Strangers in Paris 16: The Daguerreotype portrait: －Here is the work of the sun..., how coloured it is, hm?... how warm... and all in three seconds! －Well, true...looking at that, you wouldn’t say that I’d been in the sun for only three seconds... you’d think I’d been in it for three years, because I look like a real negro... never mind, it’s a pretty portrait, and my wife will be well pleased!..

THE TEMPTATION OF THE NEW St. ANTHONY: In that particular time, a great and fat sinner named Véron felt himself touched by grace: having reflected that the Press was a priesthood, he became a hermit and retired to a wild place in the midst of the steepest mountains of Montmartre. There, he spent his days and nights in prayer, and as a means of mortification, imposed upon himself as a penitence the continual re-reading of the list of subscribers to the Constitutionnel. －For his only food, Véron took at long intervals a light fragment of Regnauld pâté. －The Devil, irritated by this edifying yet unexpected conversion employed different strategies to make St. Véron succumb to his temptations, but our noble coenobite knew how to resist those things which until recently had held so many charms for him: Satan, who had taken the form of the Constitutionnel in order come in person to tempt St. Véron, returned to the road for Paris, furious. －The anchorite of Montmartre has, since this time, been placed in the rank of the greatest saints which Parisian journalism honours, and is especially supplicated by the unfortunates who have a head cold

JOURNEY TO CHINA 17: THE PENAL CODE. The Chinese legislators have decreed that all the accused will answer a summons freely in front of their judges, and so they are brought before the examining magistrate between two policemen and bound with handcuffs, which in fact leaves them no more liberty than to sneeze. Moreover justice is delivered with such promptness in the Celestial Empire that it is very rare for he who has been cautioned to remain more than eight months before attending his trial, finally the solemn day arrives when he sees himself sentenced to a fortnight in prison, and the capped mandarin has the goodness to explain to him that this fortnight is not to be confused with the eight months he has already spent behind bolted doors