Report to police for hard-sell, beggars and suspicious individuals

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 22: THE CLOTHES SELLER: “Closes to sell!... any hats, shoes, old clothes to sell!” This trade fourishes at carnival time in the vicinity of the schools of law and medicine: the student willingly sells his wardrobe to get himself a stevedore's costume, a wife, a small thimble-full of champagne and limitless tittle-tattle!

Parisian Emotions 40: Strolling during the thaw － R...R..rascal! － What! ... what ... but I told you I aimed at Gugusse... that big boy's a nuisance! － I'm going to complain to your pa... pa... parents and to the Po... Po... Police Superintendent! ... then we'll see! － Eh! you want to see, do you!... wait till I block your other window!

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 7: THE PUFFER OF CUSTOMERS: About the word puff! (scans, lies in wait for, cheat's dictionary.) Under the appearance of a simple loafer this individual is dedicated to business in security [watch] chains, hall-marked gold gems; silver pencil-cases and other encumbrances of the public way, he scents the police constable; and when the security of [watch] chains is compromised he clears off wth the shop!

JOURNEY TO CHINA 5: CHINESE LAW. Chinese barristers strive so hard, striking so many oratorical poses that the magistrates, in order not to be distracted by the gestures of the defence and to lose nothing of his arguments, generally devote themselves to some manual work, one slices his desk with penknife cuts; the other draws crude little figures on stamped paper or fashions folded paper hens; others have recourse to a more efficient method, they close their eyes and fall into deep meditation from which the usher who shouts silence! with all his might is at great pains to extract them... it is for this reason that Chinese justice is represented with a bandage over its eyes

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 17: Man in naluratibus [sic]. Philosophy, my dear Bertrand, explains very well our two characters from our physiques... you are weakness, I am strength... to you is cunning, to me courage... you are the ivy and I the oak, without me the slightest breeze from the police will plunge you into a torrent of misfortune... do not leave me and inscribe upon your arms: I die or I cling

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 17: Man in naluratibus [sic]. Philosophy, my dear Bertrand, explains very well our two characters from our physiques... you are weakness, I am strength... to you is cunning, to me courage... you are the ivy and I the oak, without me the slightest breeze from the police will plunge you into a torrent of misfortune... do not leave me and inscribe upon your arms: I die or I cling

Great Exhibition of Industry and Contemporary Hoaxes: Come in and judge for yourselves! I've directed everything, inspired everything, the Tribunals' galette for the Digest (Aside; and for a difficult digestion) The Physionopilfer which catches the manner of everything! (except the resemblance.) Running bitumen (quite.) Men's shirts for the use of small children of which you glimpse only the (Sham.) Marvellous indestructible hats (which melt in the sun and are diluted in the rain.)Dromedary pommade, so much sought after (by camels.) Fool's seed which you know (all of you.) The English Brewery which froths so well (in the Newspapers.) and the sublime, the classical coal of St. Pétrain which you can put to the test (by fire.)

Great Exhibition of Industry and Contemporary Hoaxes: Come in and judge for yourselves! I've directed everything, inspired everything, the Tribunals' galette for the Digest (Aside; and for a difficult digestion) The Physionopilfer which catches the manner of everything! (except the resemblance.) Running bitumen (quite.) Men's shirts for the use of small children of which you glimpse only the (Sham.) Marvellous indestructible hats (which melt in the sun and are diluted in the rain.)Dromedary pommade, so much sought after (by camels.) Fool's seed which you know (all of you.) The English Brewery which froths so well (in the Newspapers.) and the sublime, the classical coal of St. Pétrain which you can put to the test (by fire.)

Great Exhibition of Industry and Contemporary Hoaxes: Come in and judge for yourselves! I've directed everything, inspired everything, the Tribunals' galette for the Digest (Aside; and for a difficult digestion) The Physionopilfer which catches the manner of everything! (except the resemblance.) Running bitumen (quite.) Men's shirts for the use of small children of which you glimpse only the (Sham.) Marvellous indestructible hats (which melt in the sun and are diluted in the rain.)Dromedary pommade, so much sought after (by camels.) Fool's seed which you know (all of you.) The English Brewery which froths so well (in the Newspapers.) and the sublime, the classical coal of St. Pétrain which you can put to the test (by fire.)

THE TEMPTATION OF THE NEW St. ANTHONY: In that particular time, a great and fat sinner named Véron felt himself touched by grace: having reflected that the Press was a priesthood, he became a hermit and retired to a wild place in the midst of the steepest mountains of Montmartre. There, he spent his days and nights in prayer, and as a means of mortification, imposed upon himself as a penitence the continual re-reading of the list of subscribers to the Constitutionnel. －For his only food, Véron took at long intervals a light fragment of Regnauld pâté. －The Devil, irritated by this edifying yet unexpected conversion employed different strategies to make St. Véron succumb to his temptations, but our noble coenobite knew how to resist those things which until recently had held so many charms for him: Satan, who had taken the form of the Constitutionnel in order come in person to tempt St. Véron, returned to the road for Paris, furious. －The anchorite of Montmartre has, since this time, been placed in the rank of the greatest saints which Parisian journalism honours, and is especially supplicated by the unfortunates who have a head cold

JOURNEY TO CHINA 1: THE DISEMBARKATION. Each traveller who lands at a port in China is immediately conducted, like a wrong-doer, between two rows of inquisitive people to the passport office: hardly has he touched the soil of the Celestial Empire, than he becomes the prey of luggage-porters, hotel-boys, interpreters, messengers and other highwaymen authorised by the Chinese police

JOURNEY TO CHINA 17: THE PENAL CODE. The Chinese legislators have decreed that all the accused will answer a summons freely in front of their judges, and so they are brought before the examining magistrate between two policemen and bound with handcuffs, which in fact leaves them no more liberty than to sneeze. Moreover justice is delivered with such promptness in the Celestial Empire that it is very rare for he who has been cautioned to remain more than eight months before attending his trial, finally the solemn day arrives when he sees himself sentenced to a fortnight in prison, and the capped mandarin has the goodness to explain to him that this fortnight is not to be confused with the eight months he has already spent behind bolted doors

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!..

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 16: Sirs, crushed under the weight of misfortune, ruined, laid bare, I lost my head, I abandoned all that was dear to me, my motherrrland, my creditors, the whole paraphernalia... here am I on foreign soil... sheltered from my persecutors, but ready for the greatest sacrifices to preserve intact the name of Macaire. In consequence, I offer you 2 per cent payable in ten years;... by refusing, you can only lose hopes of the above-mentioned 2 per cent and the estmation of your servant / Macaire