THE DOERS OF BUSINESS 2: A magnificent project for an aerial railway which will link the Panthéon with the Montmartre hills... outlay, two hundred million francs!... －as for the profits, they're incalculable!..

THE SPECULATORS 1: －I bought this ground at one franc per metre and I'll sell it at 9 francs. －Who to?... －The name's not important as long as I earn 8 francs per metre... it's not too expensive. the ground's well worth 600 francs per metre on the boulevard Montmartre!... －Yes, but this place isn't populated. －What d'you mean, not populated... there are more than twenty thousand rabbits!

SKETCHES OF THE HUNT 6: －Here, I've just killed a magnificent gouse!... －But, wretched man!... that's Brahma the cock from the neighbouring farm..., a cock that'll perhaps cost you more than thirty francs... without counting the pitchfork blows!..

THE DOERS OF BUSINESS 1: －I'm launching my great concern －the moment has come... I'll cerrtainly set up a company to exploit my idea..., the manufacture of Artificial Prunes... a capital of three million! －I see what you're driving at, you're going to ask me for the stones!

THE UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION 34: An English family not managing to escape the discomfort of sleeping in the open air, for which, thanks to the hospitality of a MILORD. (Night tariff, two francs fifty centimes per hour.)

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 24: THE CASHING IN OF A NOTE: －There you are young man... against your bill of exchange for five hundred francs, I give you two hundred brand-new francs, plus a barely used camel... it comes from one of our last forays and will shortly disembark at Toulon... －I'll still take the cash... I'll make a present of the camel to Josephine... she can use it to take donkey rides in Montmorency valley!..

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 6: (Robert) So! my dear director, how goes your business? (Bertrand) Oh, vefry well, very well!! I'm very satisfied... only we don't have a sou, we can't continue. －The deuce!! －But a capitalist should deposit 200000 francs with us, the document's going to be signed this evening or tomorrow... I'm very impatient, I've got the greatest need for a pair of boots

NEWS 35: AN AERIAL [SHORT] EXCURSION TRAIN. The aeronaut. － Well! gentlemen, what do you say to this spectacle? A citizen. － I say that I'm very angry at having paid three hundred francs for my place!..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 25: A MEAGRE DINNER: －The fish was good, but it's far too dear on the bill... thirty nine francs for a meagre dinner!... －This restaurant owner's a heretic... he breaks one of the most Christian precepts: thou shalt not eat expensively on Fridays!..

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 2: －Yes, Madam, I am completely devoted to our August Prince, and by means of a few miserable hundreds of thousands of francs will undertake to re-establish him on the throne. －What are your means? －My means! I am full of means! I have friends, newspapers, and if the entire Macaire family declares itself for him, never could a Prince raise a more innumerable army!..

MISADVENTURES AND DISAPPOINTMENT OF MR.GOGO 4: But my dear Gogo, you're joking, how can you leave in your business the three thousand francs my daughter brings you, and the two hundred thousand francs for which you are indebted to her?... do you consider that? to expose the fortune of my child to the risks of commerce!... and if you don't succeed,... if you die, my daughter will then be ruined?... not so, not so, if you please! you're going to marry according to dowry regulations, to put into a good mortgage,... Devil take it! I should foresee a separation, today you're a friend, tomorrow you're not, you see it all the time

MISADVENTURES AND DISAPPOINTMENT OF MR.GOGO 4: But my dear Gogo, you're joking, how can you leave in your business the three thousand francs my daughter brings you, and the two hundred thousand francs for which you are indebted to her?... do you consider that? to expose the fortune of my child to the risks of commerce!... and if you don't succeed,... if you die, my daughter will then be ruined?... not so, not so, if you please! you're going to marry according to dowry regulations, to put into a good mortgage,... Devil take it! I should foresee a separation, today you're a friend, tomorrow you're not, you see it all the time

The Artists 4: Inconvenient to send a bad picture to the Salon: －They wrote above my forest! －Spinach twelve to the metre! －And me, on my magnificent study worthy of Géricault, they had the barbarity to stick this notice! this is a horse, don’t mistake it for a donkey since it will be confused with the artist!

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 80: A PHILANTHROPIC LOTTERY: －The gentleman －for my twenty francs I've won a dreadful woman's bag... how ridiculous! －The lady －and I['ve won] a pair of razors one of which is badly dented... what a bore!..

NEWS 197: HOLDERS OF SHARES IN CALIFORNIA. －Yesterday I poured in five thousand francs as the price of a thousand shares in the Californian Yellow Water-Lily Company... we've the cultivation of the entire left bank of the Sacramento... I think I've done good business... and the owner is as convinced as I am... －I prefer the Golden Carrot Company, I've put all the money I have in it

Strangers in Paris 18: The hat that one brings back from Paris: You might well say that that hat will make a great impression in Landerneau!... eighty five francs! it's expensive, duckie... you give yourself marabout stork feathers, but it's I who get plucked!..

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!..

Caricaturana 20: TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAVE CAPITAL TO LOSE; For one hundred francs, one and a quarter centimes, in order to eat every twelve hours... THERE'S AN INVESTMENT!! / New principles. We divide the interest in centimes and by the hour... THERE'S A TRICK!!! Guarantees offered to shareholders. The manager takes the society's money and puts some of it in the bank... THERE'S A BANK!!!! Capital...We won't tell you, you've got to see it to believe it... IF YOU WANT BUSINESS, HERE IT IS!!!!!!!!

Caricaturana 20: TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAVE CAPITAL TO LOSE; For one hundred francs, one and a quarter centimes, in order to eat every twelve hours... THERE'S AN INVESTMENT!! / New principles. We divide the interest in centimes and by the hour... THERE'S A TRICK!!! Guarantees offered to shareholders. The manager takes the society's money and puts some of it in the bank... THERE'S A BANK!!!! Capital...We won't tell you, you've got to see it to believe it... IF YOU WANT BUSINESS, HERE IT IS!!!!!!!!

Caricaturana 24: Cabs as stocks: It's not going well, my horse is failing, expenses consume me, I'm dying of hunger. －My poor Bertrand, how stupid you are! Exchange your turkey-hen for a thoroughbred, your old 1200 quid carriage for a tilbury, your livery misery of a jockey's silk, go to it... Capital thrrrrrree hundred thousand francs! Doughty deeds, random tricks, will increase your out-goings, lessen your gains, you'll recoup your losses in abundance!! －In abundance of what? －In abundance of shares, fool!!

NEWS 99: IMPRESSIONS OF A JOURNEY BY A GREAT POET: “One of the curiosities of Frankfurt that will soon disappear, I fear, is the butcher's shop. it [sic] is impossible to see a more splendid pile of fresh flesh. The bloody butchers and pink butchers’ wives chat gracefully under garlands of legs of mutton. A red stream, its colour barely altered by two gushing fountains, runs and smokes in the middle of the street!” (The Rhine by Victor Hugo Volume 2 page 357)

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

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 18: The way in which you go on one can clearly see that money means nothing to you! if I left you to your own devices, my money would soon be squandered... －Bah! father, it's not for yourself that you accumulate money... －Do you think perhaps it is for you, no, no, with the kind of life you lead I will live longer than you... －My dear father, you only have unpleasant things to say to me..

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 40: －Sir, would you be kind enough to tell me when you'ld like to pay me back the five hundred francs you've been owing me for a long time... －My dear man, you're unreasonable to make such a request of me, you clearly see that I have nothing on me at this very moment..

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