THE UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION 10: － It was Molière who was on this monument... － No, ... it was LA FONTAINE － Yes... Molière on the fountain

THE UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION 19: － say, husband, is this here, the buffet?... it looks jolly appetising to me, I'll certainly have somefink!..

SKETCHES OF SUMMER 3: －I would really like to know what sort of joker [it was] who was the first to say that man was the king of creation

GENERAL SCHLICK'S[sic] ENTRY INTO THE CAMPAIGN －This is giving me trouble... but finally I'm on the horse!!!..

THE SPECULATORS 1: －I bought this ground at one franc per metre and I'll sell it at 9 francs. －Who to?... －The name's not important as long as I earn 8 francs per metre... it's not too expensive. the ground's well worth 600 francs per metre on the boulevard Montmartre!... －Yes, but this place isn't populated. －What d'you mean, not populated... there are more than twenty thousand rabbits!

SKETCHES OF AUTUMN by DAUMIER 5: －Look here the sparrow was perching in that tree, it's very easy to shoot. －Yes, but if I kill it, we'll no longer have the opportunity to hunt tomorrow... it's the last one in our garden

NEWS 110: －Great Prince Muley, son of Muley, do you deign to place yourself in the shade beneath this object... the Englishman who had the kindness to make over this object to me for a hundred gold pieces told me that it was of excellent use in all the storms of life... －Let me be... it's useless... the day when the French took away my parasol, I caught sunstroke from which I shall never recover!..

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!

Strangers in Paris 10: The visit to the Hôtel des Invalides －It doesn’t smell very good, your broth...how much is it? －Whatever you can give, master... but the minimum is three francs... －Deuce...! I definitely find it a little salty

PARISIANS TYPES 26: Yes, Sir, your respectable air encourages me: you see in me a first tenor who has lost his DO, but who still has his wife. With eighteen children, and nothing more! nooo... thing mmmm... ore; lend me fifteen pounds or so! －I've only got a forty franc piece on me! －I'll give it back to you!

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 1: THE SELLER OF SECURITY [WATCH] CHAINS: The security [watch] chain is so called because it is a secure means of knowing that the ninny who buys it owns a watch. Accomplices stationed in the vicinity are not slow to turn this sign to a profit. Bertrand sold the chain, Macaire deals with the watch

THE ALARMISTS AND ALARMED. 6: －Sir, it's a three sou letter... －Is it the done thing to knock on the door for a three sou letter...I had a fright!... I thought they'd come to ask me for my weapons..

THE ALARMISTS AND ALARMED. 6: －Sir, it's a three sou letter... －Is it the done thing to knock on the door for a three sou letter...I had a fright!... I thought they'd come to ask me for my weapons..

Parisian Freebooters 2: The Municipal Pawnshop’s Pawn-ticket: Sir, the freebooter says to you, I haven’t got the means to redeem my watch, and this evening I’m leaving for my home region. You buy the pawn-ticket, you redeem the watch. It was pledged for 20 f[rancs] and is worth a hundred sous

The Representatives Represented 10: Henri de Larochejacquelein: The costume in which this citizen was got up on the day he went to the National Assembly to lodge his memorable proposal for President of the French Republic!...Abd-el-Kader

The Representatives Represented 10: Henri de Larochejacquelein: The costume in which this citizen was got up on the day he went to the National Assembly to lodge his memorable proposal for President of the French Republic!...Abd-el-Kader

THE UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION 36: THE REFRESHMENT-ROOM WITH SEATING － Look here... all these people eating... so they feed you on days when you pay twenty sous admission... let's go in!... － No, missis Carpolet,... those are probably the memebers of the tasting jury in going about their duties... let's not disturb them!

THE UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION 36: THE REFRESHMENT-ROOM WITH SEATING － Look here... all these people eating... so they feed you on days when you pay twenty sous admission... let's go in!... － No, missis Carpolet,... those are probably the memebers of the tasting jury in going about their duties... let's not disturb them!

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

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 27: COUNTRY ACTORS: －Yes,my dear fellow,yes the barbarians hissed at me in Cinna;and what's more you've seen me in Cinna! －Yes, I flatter myself that I've seen you, but don't you see that the provincials are hard up; open at the Français, go and find Mr.J.J.,get yourself looked after, ask for one hundred thousand francs per year and they'll applaud you...but you want success with 1500F[rancs] salaries and at Beauvais...greenhorn!

NEWS 37: A STUBBORN OLD MAN. －Clerk of the court, would you be kind enough to tell me when they'll punish the individual who, at the place du Havre, put my eye in the condition in which you see it. －But sir, it's unthinkable that you should continue to wear such an eye-patch when we've proven to you that no one was punched in the place du Havre... do you know that the ex-members of the Society of the Tenth of December would have the right to demand compensation for the harm that you're doing to their reputation!

PARISIANS TYPES 30: －My God! Missus Bombec, what hit you? －Don't mention it,dear lady, the horror! the world's become so ferocious that I'd rather be the gatekeeper at the zoo. You know that Bezuchet on the fifth floor who tells everyone that her not-so great daughter, whose filling out nicely round the waist, has become Whatdropical. Me, I just said: oh yeh! －And that's the creature that... －by Jove, flew into my face

MISADVENTURES AND DISAPPOINTMENT OF MR.GOGO 2: My son, you are wrong to risk your money in shares, the Stock Exchange is a den of swindlers, bitumen is a beastliness, the mines are precipices,... a wise man should enjoy his fortune quietly... －It's true, mother, I'm wrong, but I need some thousands of francs, and I've come to ask you... －My God!... I'd give it with pleasure... but ... frankly!... the card game ruined me this winter..

[NEWS] MR. PRUDHOMME － My son, remember this memorable day on which you have seen demolished forever the wall of the custom's post... remember that sooner or later, philosophy, the product of human reason will similarly overturn the barriers of social prejudices!... LITTLE ADOLPHE － Yes, papa!... but I say..., papa,... why are they rebuilding them a bit further away?..

PASTORALS 22: －I tell you you've moved the boundary stone and you've moved it forward on to my field!... And I'm telling you I haven't... and I'll maintain in front of all the courts that it's due to my father, and even my grandfather, that my boundary's where it is!... Ah! but!..