NEWS 189: John Bull swears that he is attached to the son of Theodore by an indissoluble tie

NEWS 130: －What an odd game!...each player finds that he has the King!..

NEWS 219: Perceiving that in thinking of digging foundations{,] he dug his grave

NEWS 219: Perceiving that in thinking of digging foundations{,] he dug his grave

NEWS 219: Perceiving that in thinking of digging foundations{,] he dug his grave

NEWS 12: What the devil is it that curbs his appetite

NEWS 12: What the devil is it that curbs his appetite

NEWS 12: What the devil is it that curbs his appetite

NEWS 29: AT THE DOOR OF THE ÉLYSÉE [PALACE]: －Sirs, the Prince has told me to tell you that he is not there! －What! does he no longer wish to follow our advice? －No. he [sic] claims that you've already stuffed him full of it as it is... －Hapless France! hapless Prince!

NEWS 29: A quarter of an hour after his death he was still alive

NEWS 299: POOR FRANCE!... THE TRUNK IS STRUCK BY LIGHTNING, BUT THE ROOTS HOLD FAST!

NEWS 14: The emotion of Doctor Véron, believing himself to be pursued by an enraged dog

Friends 7: It is because he is your friend..

NEWS 233: All the same we never doubted that one day we'd sail in that ship

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!..

NEWS 5: OUR LAST TWELFTH-NIGHT CAKE －Does it not seem to you that it is calculated to disgust others

NEWS 85: －This trunk is no one's, therefore it ought to belong to us

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 124: MIMI VÉRON'S REMEDY: apothecary-in-chief of the Constitutionnel－Take it... take it, this is the only thing that can save you!

NEWS 124: MIMI VÉRON'S REMEDY: apothecary-in-chief of the Constitutionnel－Take it... take it, this is the only thing that can save you!

JOURNEY TO CHINA 2: THE PASSPORT. The foreigner who visits China is submitted to an indispensable formality; he receives a slip of paper on which is written the age he wants to indicate, the profession he says he pursues and the place where it pleases him to appoint his birth; all that followed by a description of particulars which applies to everybody, after which, against a consideration of two francs, the Chinese government is deemed to lend him succour and assistance for one year

NEWS 254: A DEPUTY'S NIGHTMARE. － Oh! my God! what is the matter dear? － I was dreaming that I was invalidated

MONOMANIACS 3: THE EXPERT: There are Experts and Experts, as there are Uncouth Peolple and Uncouth People. Firtly [there is] the Expert who knows (this is the rarest type); then the Expert who knows nothing, or knows stupid and useless things, that is to say, less than nothing. The Expert of these different categories passes for a profound, serious man; he is in a very good position, and makes a reputation in the world, like all who are hollow. He passes his days full of pleasures and free from failings, except that he is subject to the Cross of Honoour and the Academy

MONOMANIACS 3: THE EXPERT: There are Experts and Experts, as there are Uncouth Peolple and Uncouth People. Firtly [there is] the Expert who knows (this is the rarest type); then the Expert who knows nothing, or knows stupid and useless things, that is to say, less than nothing. The Expert of these different categories passes for a profound, serious man; he is in a very good position, and makes a reputation in the world, like all who are hollow. He passes his days full of pleasures and free from failings, except that he is subject to the Cross of Honoour and the Academy

News 40: － It is not true that this tragedy contains beauties of the first order... and yet it was refused by the committee of the Théâtre Français and even by that of the Odéon... there is only one thing left: I am going to leave my manuscript with the caretaker of the Gymnasium, without giving my name!