NEWS 24: － What... the paper says that it's rumoured in the Stock-Exchange that the Russians have crossed the Prut!... － Well! Mister Panelet... all the same... because the Russians have begun hostilities that's no reason for you not to finish off shaving

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

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

JOURNEY TO CHINA 4: THE SEAFARERS' HOTEL. He who says hotel-keeper －in China－ and above all in a seaport, says patent thief... if you bring to his notice that he counts dinners that you have not ordered －errands that you have not had [him] make －waiters who have not served you －expenses for transporting luggage for which you have paid, he replies graciously: Suh, we always count that, always... that is the Chinese habit!... Editer's note: This habit also exists in certain French sea ports

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?..

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

NEWS 278: － Yes, missis Fribochon, there was, three weeks ago, a veru big earth tremor in Bordeaux, and no later than the day before yesterday, between midnight and three in the morning I felt jolts in my bed that weren't natural... mister Potard, the herbalist, explained this Phenomenon to me... he claims that it's owing to the government that allows too much digging up of the land in California and that it'll end up by playing a dirty trick on all of us in the Batignolles..

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!..

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT [second series]: Look here, then there's mister Godard who's just left the circus while moving his four storeys house... I wouldn't like to be the porter for that landlord!..

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

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!..

TRIVIAL THINGS 4: －Don't leave your friend in that state! －Him my friend!...that's my doorkeeper

TRIVIAL THINGS 4: －Don't leave your friend in that state! －Him my friend!...that's my doorkeeper

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

NEWS 80: New positions taken up by the Russians, since they have had to fight dysentery

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

Conjugal Manners 34: I should have bet on it ... instead of taking him to see Séraphin, you take him to play ... It's already bad enough for grown-ups; poor little dear! ... －－ Don't worry, Madam, that's the way children amuse themselves!

Bathers 10: Hurry up, ugly wretch; have you seen that poodle there, he should have been a sailor, he's made boats for himself with walnut shells, and you're afraid of the four sous pool

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 Blue-stockings 11: Take that further away... impossible to work..

PARISIAN SKETCHES 3: － Yes, my dear mister Coffignon, it would be difficult for me to count up the number of my conquests I've always had and today still have great success with women! － To be sure [,] as for me [,] I've only ever had mine [my woman] and I still find that it's too much!

Strangers in Paris 19: －Look at that imbecile who hasn't seen that his barrel's leaking... －You're stupid! that's done on purpose, it's chloride that they spread over the streets to disinfect them... it's the Labaraque system, applied to the town of Paris