NEWS 54: － They're right to leave that tower there standing... you'd have to go up in a balloon to demolish it!..

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

Childish Acts 6: －Well, what about my glass... if I don't have my glass I'll tell Mummy that you've been drinking again with that lanky fellow whom she told you not to go about with!..

TRIVIAL THINGS 2: Blast it! they're happier than thier master,these blackguardly boots!...they're drinking!..

NEWS 62: －Got to admit that it's very odd that the grapes have caught the potatoes' disease!

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 4: THE GATHERER OF CIGAR BUTTS: They're not going to stop, those chaps there! they're bailiffs' clerks, they'll smoke them to ashes, and no means of getting plugs of tabacco from them

News 112: You’re wrong to want to post up that...advertisement..

THE BACHELOR'S DAY 6: － Without doubt Mr. Riflot the right to petition is sacred, but is abused! witness that which you're talking to us about: to tax bachelors for being useless to the population! I'am angry about it for married people; but it has to be said that of [bachelors] there is no one, more than I Coquelet, who has helped the population

PARISIANS TYPES 29: Discomfort in talking to people who have a mania for putting thier story into action. －Yes dear Sir, do you think that the rrrrascal was allowed to laugh in my face. You know I won't stand for that. So, I punched him... there, like that, do you see, and I shook you... there, like that... vigorously

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!..

PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 16: Below the upper vignette: Bineau the Savage making his entry as minister; Below the lower vignette: －Well, so it's no cleverer than that to talk from the tribune? －Yes, but you, Pierre, you're listening to me too politely, you should say something stupid from time to time, [because] without that there's no longer any illusion, we're not in a meeting any more!

PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 16: Below the upper vignette: Bineau the Savage making his entry as minister; Below the lower vignette: －Well, so it's no cleverer than that to talk from the tribune? －Yes, but you, Pierre, you're listening to me too politely, you should say something stupid from time to time, [because] without that there's no longer any illusion, we're not in a meeting any more!

The Railways 14: How are they going to have atmospheric railways!..

Who wants it [for 'them']? Go to bed, babbler

NEWS 66: A REPLASTERING:－ My little chap, you demolish [it] in vain!...I’m going to replaster that very thing!..

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 51: －It doesn't surprise me that women always have a taste for military uniform! －

Childish Acts 5: I would have never thought that at my age..

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

NEWS 1: I didn’t tell you to go and make yourself into... sugar! I told you to go and cook yourself!

THE ALARMISTS AND ALARMED. 5: －Eh! so what’s new?... －Sir, whiting has become even dearer since yesterday!... －I always said that we were going to have a famine..

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!..

The Good Bourgeois 20: －It appears they have just seen the sea serpent again in the Indian Ocean! －Is that possible, for goodness sake! －Certainly it's possible, for goodness sake, because I told you that it says so in le Constitutionnel! so!..

The Good Bourgeois 20: －It appears they have just seen the sea serpent again in the Indian Ocean! －Is that possible, for goodness sake! －Certainly it's possible, for goodness sake, because I told you that it says so in le Constitutionnel! so!..

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!