JOURNEY TO CHINA 6: CHINESE PROPRIETY. In this country they have a singular idea of propriety!... the most chaste young girl, the most upstanding woman do not blush, by a prodigious exaggeration of forms, to call attention to a certain quarter to which they give the appearance of a veritable air-balloon... they call that a bustle..

TRIVIAL THINGS 1: Eleven degrees centigrade! what a bad turn it gives you! and they call this a year of mercy!

SKETCHES OF WINTER 2: Going to sample what it is convenient to call, even in the month of December, the pleasures of the hunt!..

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!

JOURNEY TO CHINA 9: A CHINESE DANCE.One is greatly mistaken if one believes the Chinese people to be giddy, joyful and the friend of pleasure: they are on the contrary serious and morose, since their greatest amusement consists in a type of lugubrious walking in which the men and women walk one in front of the other, or one beside the other, and seem to be saying among themselves: brother we should die! In order also to point to the philosophical intention behind this ceremony, the opposite of dancing, they call it: Counter-dancing

THRILLS OF THE HUNT 13: －It's no use their having told me their guns are charged only with small shot, it's no less deeply upsetting to have my head aimed at like this for the next three hours!... I tremble in case they dream they meet a rabbit!..

NEWS 35: EX-MEMBERS OF THE EX-SOCIETY OF THE EX-TENTH-OF-DECEMBER: －To be forced to drink beer when they paid for such good wine for us!..

NEWS 200: A VISIT TO THE CONVICT-PRISON IN NAPLES: Mr.Gladstone－ And what do you call this man? he doesn't look like a villain. The Gaolor－ Don't you believe any of it, on the contrary,he's a demagogue, an old constitutional minister of 1848 called Carlo Poërio. In his inexhaustible clemency the best and most worthy of kings ordered that we chain him to an assassin, so that he might return to the good. He'd have been completely lost if we'd left him with another demagogue

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 2: THE GLEANER: What, not a needle,... not a handkerchief!... there's no longer any means of doing your job... it's the banker's wives, they don't leave anything lying around!..

Affectation 2: I said to myself: do they think we're from the rue des Lombards?... There's a little air about you which is not that of a confectioner at all

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!..

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 9: Having had the unfortunate idea of going to take a siesta by the river bank

NEWS 36: The Bear of the north, the most unpleseant of known bears

THE ALARMISTS AND ALARMED. 7: I think they're beating the call to arms... Adolphe don't go... inthe name of the children we could have had!..

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 6: THEATRES IN THE MONTH OF AUGUST. They dream that the auditorium is full to the brim and that they argue over programmes and small seats..., let's not wake them!..

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 61: －What were you thinking of, Mr. Piquepruneman, to have made me a frock-coat as much [in the style] of a landlord as that... you well know that I live in the same street as citizen Proudhon!..

[NEWS 70]: THE TREE OF LIBERTY: －What! not a friend to shout: death-trap!

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 24: －Did he need to smoke pipes[,] him there[,] to get a coloured face!

NEWS 179: They wanted to snuff out even the Sun

TRIVIAL THINGS 6: －Is it to you or to the Gentleman who's your brother that I have the honour of speaking? －It is to my brother, Sir

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!

Conjugal Manners 44: Inconvenient to dream aloud: I dreamed... I called Victor! You lied to me, you old gherkin, I couldn't call Victor, because you'd named him Boniface!

PARISIAN IN 1848. 3: －Yes, citizen, I demand the most complete abolition of factions!..

PARISIAN IN 1848. 3: －Yes, citizen, I demand the most complete abolition of factions!..