NEWS 309: NAUTICAL RACES OF 1856 － Oh! it's wonderful how fast they go... and without oars!..

NEWS 173: － Papa, why do they make these soldiers go out when it's raining. － My dear, it's to teach them to go into action

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 87: THE LADY WHO CULTIVATES THE ARTS: The gentlemen in chorus. It's charming...It's chaarming... It's chaaahhhming!..

NEWS 392: － Oh! my poor missis Chaffarou, it's certainly all over with us... there's the comet arriving and the sun going away!..

NEWS 251: THE TSAR AT SEBASTOPOL. －It's annoying...... they know I don't like the tricolour flag, and they've put it everywhere!..

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

NEWS 167: Do you think perhaps it's a spectator... well not even that!... it's the director!!!

NEWS 167: Do you think perhaps it's a spectator... well not even that!... it's the director!!!

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 48: －They said to the Government that it wasn't progressing, so naturally it got the idea of taking all the railways!... －That's wanting to go too fast!..

NEWS 471: － What,... is it really possible!... there'll soon be beef for next to nothing and veal into a bargain!... － So they say, misis Gobinard,.... and they say!..

NEWS 15: － These poor animals... they're so disfigured that you can't even recognise them... they who've been such good friends for five years!... oh! Mister Barbaroux, we're living in truly sad times!..

NEWS 73: Cossack mares dead of thirst, for not having been able to go to Constantinople to quench [it] in the Sultanas' marble baths, as they were promised!..

Conjugal Manners 49: A memory of youth: －－ Here, you see our initials still haven't worn out...Oh, Sophie, it's here that I won your heart. －－ Be quiet, Théophile... what if someone were to hear us!

NEWS 59: THE INCONVENIENCE OF DINING WITH A SCHOLAR WHO LIKES MAKING CHEMISTRY AND OTHER EXPERIMENTS. － Well now, without your wuestioning it, I have just make you all eat fritillary... I'm curious to know positively if it's a safe food able to replace the potato or if it's poison

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

Parisian Emotions 1: Aren't they dreary!... see how they make off!... what it is not to live in property!!!... My little loves, when you come by again we should warn you, we'll burn pastilles from the Seraglio for you..

PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 18: Below the upper vignette: －You see, how well little Estancelin speaks for his age, and in front of everybody, and without crying... unlike you Anatole, he's a great satisfaction to his parents! ; Below the lower vignette: The meeting is suspended

NAUTICAL IMPRESSIONS. NAUTICAL THRILLS: Mr. PRUDHOMME. －What..., impudent waves!... do you indeed not know whom you are carrying at this moment, since you are so bold towards me?... understand that, like Xerxes, I am able to have you lashed!... Mrs. PRUDHOMME (Trembling all over) －Oh!... my dear... I beg you!... don't be impertinent to it, you'll put it in a rage and it's capable of swallowing us up!..

NEWS 184: AN UNLUCKY FIGHTER: See, here, my friend Léon, gulp this down for me... it's Argenteuil balsam...it's worked every time one of my men has been unwise enough to separate from my gang and has got a frightful beating up!...another time, don't go out alone against the majority!..

Ancient History 43: Œdipus at the Spinx's. This ugly animal with the head of an antiquary, / Said to him: Why, Sir, can you not count / On a pyramid? Then without hesitation / Œdipus replied: It's because they are near Cairo? You can be grateful for an old pun (Lesson by Mr. Raoul-Rochette)

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!

NEWS 25: － Yes, mister Rifolet, they say that the Cossacks appear to be marching to Constantinople only the better to fool us.. in reality, they're on the way to Paris... personally, I've taken all my precautions, I've already carefully hidden all my packets of candles

NEWS 214: － They're talking about holding new elections. － This time before giving our votes to one of the candidates, we'll have him visited by the doctor so that afterwards they don't declare him invalid

Strangers in Paris 1: The arrival: What, no room!... －Not even for your hat-box... －What about in the sitting-room? －Twenty one Englishmen are in there... －In the attic?... －I've put eleven Savoyards in there... －In the celler?... －Fifteen Polish people have set up home... －Oh! hang it...oh! damnation... oh! Good God!...are we going to spend the night by the side of a milestone?... －That's what you'd better do, because then the night patrol will get you out of trouble quickly by taking you to sleep at the Prefecture of Police's office, Saint Martin cell!... specially reserved for the homeless and poodles without papers!..