NEWS: CHINA CIVILISING HERSELF. －Now then..., attention!... here's the European theory... the eyes looking fifteen paces into the distance and let the foot which is on the ground quickly go to rejoin that which is in the air..

TODAY'S PHILANTHROPISTS 5: －Madam... it is not enough only to have danced for the benefit of those poor Poles... let us be Philanthropists to the very end... let us take supper for their profit!..

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

Pro-divorce Women 1: ﾐﾑWomen citizens... it is rumoured that divorce is on the point of being denied to us... let us organise ourselves permanently here and declare that the fatherland is in danger!..

PARLIAMENTARY IDYLLS 13: Before the session opens anew. / Let us harvest the fruits that Pomona grants us. / Come, says Thiers to Molé, let us make a store / Of a few apples of discord

NEWS 34: Oh! heavens, Madeleine!... I'm sure you let that child shout Long live the Republic in the street!..

Conjugal Manners 47: Sir... Sir, here's your handkerchief

Caricaturana 81: Would you like gold,would you like silver, would you like diamonds, millions [of francs], thousands of million? Come, help yourself... Baoud! Baoud! Baoud-boud-boud!! Here's bitumen, here's steel, lead, gold, paper, here's gallllvanised irrrrron... come on, come on, come on quickly, the law's going to change, you're going to lose it all, hurry up, get them, get your tickets! get your tickets! (Lively, lively with the music) Baoud! Baoud!! baoud-baoud-baoud!! Baoud! Baoud!!

Where are we going, where are we going?...We are walking on a volcano, the gulf of revolutions is open beneath our footsteps...the carriage of state has been halted by the flood of all these bad passions

Where are we going, where are we going?...We are walking on a volcano, the gulf of revolutions is open beneath our footsteps...the carriage of state has been halted by the flood of all these bad passions

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 8: THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL FRIEND: Ah! dear friend; how stout you've become... let me embrace you! let me embrace you! (the instant after, it was nothing but a mistake and the gentleman discovers that his extempore friend wished to make the acquaintance of... his watch!)

NEWS 66: Oh! if I were the King of Spain How [quickly] I'd clear off! (Variation on a celebrated ballad)

The Blue-stockings 17: (The pit at the Odéon) － The author!... the author!... the author!... － Gentlemen, your impatience will be satisfied... you wish to know who is the author of this play which has just received such a great, and I should say, such justifiable, success... the author... is meeeeee!

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 62: THE DAQY WHEN YOU HAVE TO DISPLAY GALLANTRY: －How much is that big bouquet?... －Ten francs －Good God!... and this little here? －Fifteen francs －Damnation!..

PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 13: Below the upper vignette: Mr. Berger, known as The Lofty One, receiving the homage which is certainly due to him on all accounts; Below the lower vignette: The great manœuvre of wooden knives commanded by General Baraguay d'Hilliers

TENANTS AND LANDLOADS 5: －Why, madam..., I am unwise enough to absent myself from my property for some months and this is the state in which I find you... I give you twenty four hours' notice to leave... I don't even know that I don't have the right to claim damages from your husband!..

SKETCHES OF THE THEATRE 15: That which proves to us why it is pertfectly useless to spout gracious compliments to the public, in the play's final couplet

JOURNEY TO CHINA 5: CHINESE LAW. Chinese barristers strive so hard, striking so many oratorical poses that the magistrates, in order not to be distracted by the gestures of the defence and to lose nothing of his arguments, generally devote themselves to some manual work, one slices his desk with penknife cuts; the other draws crude little figures on stamped paper or fashions folded paper hens; others have recourse to a more efficient method, they close their eyes and fall into deep meditation from which the usher who shouts silence! with all his might is at great pains to extract them... it is for this reason that Chinese justice is represented with a bandage over its eyes

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

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

Parisian Emotions 15: But waiter, it is unworthy

Parisian Emotions 15: But waiter, it is unworthy

Conjugal Manners 37: The well of Grenelle. And these rogues of chemists who say that it does some good to bathe children in the well of Grenelle; here's poor Dodophe who's gone greener than an apple; I don't know whether my son's a lizard or a toad!!

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

Conjugal Manners 26: Eh, Eh! little rascal, you will make brats, you already have the eyes of a scoundrel! You'll be like your father