Album des Charges du Jour: Le Cid also setting out on the campaign to go and fight the Moors

Album des Charges du Jour: Singular combat between the Cid and the Emperor of Morocco

Album des Charges du Jour: Singular combat between the Cid and the Emperor of Morocco

Frontispiece of the ALBUM DES CHARGES DU JOUR

Frontispiece of the ALBUM DES CHARGES DU JOUR

Album des Charges du Jour: A parasol in a difficult position

Album des Charges du Jour : A difficult position. －Pulled about between civilisation and the retrograde party

Album des Charges du Jour: －There's a wind that's going to thwart the Spaniards' disembarkation nicely!... －Yes, but it's also very poor weather for my parasol..

Album des Charges du Jour: －There's a wind that's going to thwart the Spaniards' disembarkation nicely!... －Yes, but it's also very poor weather for my parasol..

Album des Charges du Jour: EUNUCHS DISCHARGED BY THE BEY TUNIS.[sic] －What's going to become of us?... here we are[,] dismissed!... －There's nothing for it but to become coachmen in Constantinople!..

Album des Charges du Jour: The new costume of Turkish coachmen in Constantinople. －Neither men, nor women......, all eunuchs!...... (Extract from the new statute.)

Album des Charges du Jour: THE EMPEROR MOROCCO CONSULTING THE CELEBRATED SORCERER DESBAROLLES. －Here is a little line which indicates to me that you are destined to receive a great drubbing!..

Album des Charges du Jour: AT TANGIER －Sublime Majesty!... here come the Spaniards..., I think of anticipating your wishes, in order to inspire them with respect..., to unfurl your august parasol!... －Do not pester me, Belboul, about my parasol... at this very moment I would prefer to have a Bullet-shield!..

Album des Charges du Jour: AT TANGIER －Sublime Majesty!... here come the Spaniards..., I think of anticipating your wishes, in order to inspire them with respect..., to unfurl your august parasol!... －Do not pester me, Belboul, about my parasol... at this very moment I would prefer to have a Bullet-shield!..

NEWS 173: － Papa, why do they make these soldiers go out when it's raining. － My dear, it's to teach them to go into action

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 20: A NATIONAL HOLIDAY EVENING: It never fails... you go out to see the fire[works], and revel in nothing but water!..

Ancient History 2: The watch of the Termopythae guards

Caricatures of the Day 84: Disillusion

MUSICAL SKETCHES 3: AT THE CHAMPS-ELYSEES. It has never been known whether it is the music which makes the beer go down, or the beer which makes one swallow the music

TRAGICO-CLASSICAL PHYSIOGNOMIES 6: Yes I come, into his temple, to adore the Eternal One. (Athalie)

TRAGICO-CLASSICAL PHYSIOGNOMIES 6: Yes I come, into his temple, to adore the Eternal One. (Athalie)

NEWS 73: Cossack mares dead of thirst, for not having been able to go to Constantinople to quench [it] in the Sultanas' marble baths, as they were promised!..

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..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 63: THE NEIGHBOURS BEFORE THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE: Well, I won the case all the same, and you won't be so stuck-up now, Mrs. Pimbèche... because the Justice of the Peace has sentenced you to go back to your house which backs on to mine!..

(Left) The little village on the far mountainside was already out of sight, and spring was coming around again. The grape trees were like large ailing snakes creeping under the coping stones of the wall. A brown light moved about in the tepid air. The void created by the selfsame every day is likely to chop down even the young trees that were left behind. In this everyday life, a thicket of trees protrudes like a boulder. (Right) The village I lived in has never been thought of as so small. The sun showed itself. The tall poplar forest looks like a beach being blown about by the wind. I grow dizzy just watching that seamless succession. If I can manage to get drunk on this succession of unchanging days, I can also grow to feel like I have taken down an elephant or snake. He differentiated things in this way, like a fluttering butterfly