Fashionable Custom-made Striped Kimono : Holding a Toothpick in the Mouth

Fashionable Custom-made Striped Kimono : Water Gun

Fashionable Custom-made Striped Kimono : Toy Boat

Bijin imayoo sugata [Geisha with a Toothpick]

PARISIANS TYPES 2: Don't bention it I've got a cold in the 'ead and can't see clearly ,by dear!..

Ancient History 28: Hannibal's passage. In these frowning mountains whose snowy crest / Is like a giant's hoary brow, / Triumphant Hannibal, in order to make himself a path / Puts the Alps in vinaigrette (The Occidentals of Mr. Quinet)

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

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!..

Strangers in Paris 18: The hat that one brings back from Paris: You might well say that that hat will make a great impression in Landerneau!... eighty five francs! it's expensive, duckie... you give yourself marabout stork feathers, but it's I who get plucked!..

THE BACHELOR'S DAY 11: SEVEN O'CLOCK: Mr. Coquelet goes home... my word! dear chap, with honourable intentions. a neighbour 45 years old; a very pleasant little widow; but the heart has no part in it:..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 76: A ‘PAMELA’ HAT: You are quite right, madam, to embrace the ravishing form of this new hat... in profile above all it suits your countenance divinely!..

Sketch Taken at the Salon by Daumier: A fantastic painter: － See, look how I visualise the apotheosis of a martyr... － But I can make out only the legs of your figure. －The head's already in the sky... that proves he's a saint!..

Strangers in Paris 11: A little trip by omnibus: －Are you going to the exhibition?... －Yes, Sir... look at our notice yourself... at the faubourg St. Jacques you take a connecting [omnibus] which takes you to the Jardin des Plantes... from there you go to Belleville from where they take you directly to the Champs-Élysées

PASTORALS 34: -－Will you shut up with your Cock-a doodle-doos...there's no point in coming to the country to sleep peacefully, －I'm woken everyday at three o'clock in the morning... I slept better in Paris, even when my wife was alive!..

Sketches of the Day 27: The Representative’s wife

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 20: A NATIONAL HOLIDAY EVENING: It never fails... you go out to see the fire[works], and revel in nothing but water!..

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 24: THE KNIGHT OF THE GOLDEN SPUR: This so-called former Colonel of the Papal Guard, later aide-de-camp to the Prince of Monaco, awaiting as a prize for his services a distinguished post in the Government!... he would, however, willingly accept a tabacconist's shop or a position as an inspector of [street] sweeping; besides [this] he is a gallant man like all knights of his order, for a trifle demanding satisfaction from five-year-old children, perfectly making excuses from the moment you look at him in the face

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 30: A CUSTOM OF INDIA: My dear friend, I come to make my most sincere compliments to you... our prince is definitely dead, and it is to you, the oldest officer of the palace, that befalls the distinguished honour of accompanying his wives to the pyre, where you will burn with them!..

PROFILES 7: THE FREQUENTER OF FÉLIX'S SHOP: Paris is at once the centre of civilisation, of the fine arts and of small pies; the love of the galette is pushed to fanaticism. Pastry cooks abound here, and today Paris is perhaps the city in the world where most brioches are made

Caricaturana 93: Suffer the little children to come unto me!... Do you understand the parable, Bertrand? －you don't! blockhead! we'll form a paternal and philanthropic association, we receive 5/10ths now, in order to give 500 for 100 in the future... －And what shall we fix it to in the future －We'll up sticks. Blockhead! There we'll place the tontine, Tonton-ton-ton, Tontine, ton-ton

PARISIAN MEN IN 1852. 6: － [May] I introduce to you my son Théodule, scarely out of college and he's already made a multitude of victims... al the young women wish to marry him! － The bad boy!... he takes after his father!

TODAY'S PHILANTHROPISTS 12: －So then, my friend, at the age of twenty two you had already killed three men... what a powerful nature, and how guilty society is for not having better guided it!... －Oh! yeah sir!... in my view the police have been very wrong... without them I wouldn't be here!..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 56: A PAYMENT OF DIVIDEND: －Excuse me!... they're announcing in all the newspapers that the Capricorn insurance company is making arrangements to pay out a first dividend, and they don't warn that the dividend's of thirty sous per share!... then take a hackney cab; I haven't even got the means to tip my coachman!..

The Blue-stockings 22: The blue-stocking declaiming her play －Act 6 Scene 1... the theatre shows a tiger asleep in the desert... Rosalba barely drags herself forward, and does so with even greater difficulty because of her five children and her aged father: －Rosalba falls at the foot of a date-palm covered with coconuts, and cries in despair: Oh heaven, when will our torments finish. －The entire audience (in a low voice): ‘and ours, too, when will they finish, oh heaven!’

MONOMANIACS 8: THE COFFEE-LOVER: The half-cup easily becomes second nature; one finds a number of people who, like the lover above, have made themselves an immutable law to take their coffee, in order to facilitate digestion, even though their means do not allow them to dine. It is agreed that existence would be too bitter without chicory