A Man Working Hard on Launching a Hot-Air Balloon From Early Morning On

I try so hard to please Ayesha, to make jokes. To win her back, I even bought a computer, but..

SKETCH OF THE DAY 28: You know the fat deputy from opposite, who's a representative at 25 francs a day, well, this morning I read off the newspaper that they'd given him a commission! －A commission pays generally seventy five centimes without even a written decision... on that day he should've made 25 francs 15 sous, what luck!

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

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

PRACTICES OF THE MERCHANTS OF PARIS 6: She does make a fuss, that stuck up woman from the fifth floor, Wearing a hat! and two cups of milk for a sou! Damnation! Ma Capitaine, it's because we've got visitors this morning

NEWS 85: PAINFUL SITUATION OF THE POOR LITTLE KING OF GREECE: The Englishman －Here's a brat that I could only make one mouthful of!... The Russian －Would you please leave this little man alone －you see, I'm defending him!

PEOPLE OF THE LAW 24: －What a pity that charming little woman didn't ask me to defend her... how I would have argued that her husband is a rascal!..

THE BACHELOR'S DAY 7: ONE O'CLOCK: A walk in the Luxembourg: Go on scoundrel. gulp it down! you'll see what it's like to be thrown into the water by a r... r... r... ras... scal like you!!

Caricaturana 48: A candidate: Whom do you need?... A man of probity, conscientious, a serious man, a manufacturer, a man who doesn't need the government in order to become rich, a man familiar with the law, who knows it well, from experience, from long experience... A long experience of the law... You couldn't make a better choice, take my... take my honourable friend

TRIVIAL THINGS 10: You; my friend! how did you know I'm a widower; after twenty years of hard lab...[our]... no to setting up house: you see I'm beginning to recover myself and you're suggesting to me a second marriage...Ragoulot, will you let go of me!

WHEN YOU'RE UNLUCKY 1: －To think that I've not been able to fire a single shot since this morning!... －Oh! different from me... I've killed my dog!..

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 Blue-stockings 10: So!... They haven't noticed my novel again today! now these journalists occupy themselves each morning with the Lièvres [Hares]... with the Perdreaux [Young Patridges]... with the Bécasses! [Snipes]... and they do not think of me... it is unthinkable!..

TRIVIAL THINGS 8: －Don't talk to me about it, it's pitiful:there's a man who's spent his week's money on strong drink, you should look after such unfortunates... －Well at least, pick him up!... －Certainly not... he didn't get drunk at my place!

NEWS 225: －To think that with the stone from all these pedestals you could have built a good dozen primary schools

PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 25: Below the upper vignette: A solicitor on the look-out for Bineau the Savage, minister of public works. Below the lower vignette: The friendship of a great man is a kindness of the gods! － Particularly on a rainy day and when the gutters are full

Souunjiwohazurete,shibarakuhajinkagaatta.konohennihakumosuketoyobaretaninpugasundeita

NEWS 269: Then don't look over there, you well know that it's a puppet

NEWS 194: To a known air: －Oh! Richard, oh! my king, the universe abandons you, On the earth there is thus only you interested in your person

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

JOURNEY TO CHINA 6: CHINESE PROPRIETY. In this country they have a singular idea of propriety!... the most chaste young girl, the most upstanding woman do not blush, by a prodigious exaggeration of forms, to call attention to a certain quarter to which they give the appearance of a veritable air-balloon... they call that a bustle..

Caricaturana 34: What the Devil! Let us respect propriety! But steward, take care with your invitations!... You are missing out all the proprieties!... Why, you have on your list a Mr. Grippardin, a disreputable man!... A Mr. Durand, whose fortune comes from I don't know where!... What the Devil! Mr.Bertrand, if I'd let you do this, you'd end up by making me keep low company

Ancient History 12: A meeting of happy augures

SKETCHES OF THE HUNT 7: －Well!... do you intend to stay there? －Certainly not!... I was waiting so that you could carry me to the village on your back... －No thanks, for a league and a half from here!... are you mad?... －Come!... look here, my friend... act as though you've killed a roe-deer and you've got to carry it home!..