Great Kanto Earthquake Illustration: Person Attempting to Rebuild, I Came to the Fire Devastation and These are Now My Only Assets, Courage to These Two Arms

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

PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 7: Below the upper vignette: Pierre Leroux daring to address the demi-god Barrot; Below the lower vignette: Pierre Leroux, having set forth to the tribune his social doctriness, [that are] no less tangled than his hair, receives a hand-shakes from his friends, who, in a fashion, appear to have understood them

JOURNEY TO CHINA 9: A CHINESE DANCE.One is greatly mistaken if one believes the Chinese people to be giddy, joyful and the friend of pleasure: they are on the contrary serious and morose, since their greatest amusement consists in a type of lugubrious walking in which the men and women walk one in front of the other, or one beside the other, and seem to be saying among themselves: brother we should die! In order also to point to the philosophical intention behind this ceremony, the opposite of dancing, they call it: Counter-dancing

TODAY'S PHILANTHROPISTS 15: －Come closer, friends, do not be ashamed... you see that it is only I myself!... you are five hundred... good... today I am going to distribute these twenty three bunches of faggots and this pot-full of broth, broth in which each week I pour the best part of my fortune!..

TODAY'S PHILANTHROPISTS 15: －Come closer, friends, do not be ashamed... you see that it is only I myself!... you are five hundred... good... today I am going to distribute these twenty three bunches of faggots and this pot-full of broth, broth in which each week I pour the best part of my fortune!..

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!..

Ancient History 3: Achilles in his tent. In tears, remembering the charms of Briseis / The hero enjoys his dismal sadness. / And in vain, Patrocles, polishing his weapons / Tries to awaken his burning courage. (Secret translation by President P.) This precious bas-relief was discovered in the ruins of the ancient Boule rouge [Red Ball] (Montmartre suburb) by our indefatigable traveller, Mr. Charles Texier. According to Mr. Ingres, only Phidias could have been its maker

NEWS 105: THE REJUVENATION OF THE CONSTITUTIONEL [sic] FOLLOWING THE REJUVENATION OF AESON: I read in Mr. de Chompre's book that the aged Aeson was in earlier times perfectly rejuvenated by making him simmer in a stew-pot with a multitude of small spices, such as marshmallow roots, lizard, sticks of liquorice and toads... but the precise recipe of this stew has been lost... I have imagined new ingredients, but unfortunately they are devilishly expensive! I think I would have done better to preserve my old fellow by －having him stuffed by Mr. Gannat!

Conjugal Manners 30: The plea of adultery: "Magistrates, my client is sure of the fact. But this personal conviction is not enough to satisfy him; it is necessary for him to share it with your tribunal, with those listeners gathered here... with the whole of France. Such was the task taken upon myself in the intererst of my client, and I believe that I have made the issue clear before you. Now, it only remains for my client to see... his social position confirmed by a fair judgement, and you are very just. Magistrates, do not refuse him this last satisfaction."

MONOMANIACS 7: THE HYPOCHONDRIAC: This class of citizens is the providence of medicine, the blessing of pharmacy, it is the Nymph Egeria who has inspired white mustard, Paraguay-Roux, the Regnault pâte, the Clyso-bolus and generally all the inventions destined to comfort non-suffering humanity. The hypochondriac gives himself by turns pleurisy, consumption Etc. Etc. He varies his illness in order to vary his pleasures and each day he exclaims, on feeling his pulse, “I truly must have an iron constitution to be able to resist all these illnesses.”