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NEWS 179: The soothsayers of diplomacy not daring to broach the Prussian-bird in order to know what to believe

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NEWS 179: The soothsayers of diplomacy not daring to broach the Prussian-bird in order to know what to believe

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The Blue-stockings 17: (The pit at the Odéon) － The author!... the author!... the author!... － Gentlemen, your impatience will be satisfied... you wish to know who is the author of this play which has just received such a great, and I should say, such justifiable, success... the author... is meeeeee!

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Ancient History 21: Marius at Minturnae. Admire the roguishness of this great General! / Seeing that he was going to be seized; / Across the reeds [and] into the slime he slid / And laughed with certainty in this swamp of FAST COLOUR (Historical pun by Mr. de Rothschild)

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Musicians of Paris 5: “Where could we be better off (repeat.)” “Than in the bosom of the family － ” There three artists would find themselves better off in the bosom of the tavern, and their young associate in the bosom of a game of marbles

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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

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MEMORIES OF THE PEACE CONGRESS 1: Victor Hugo, in a lecture of three points, demonstrates the futility of military glory, and proves by example that the crown of laurels could be replaced to advantage by a crown of roses! this gives him the advantage of making a novel effect of his forehead

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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!..

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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!..

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TENANTS AND LANDLOADS 5: －Why, madam..., I am unwise enough to absent myself from my property for some months and this is the state in which I find you... I give you twenty four hours' notice to leave... I don't even know that I don't have the right to claim damages from your husband!..

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THE BACHELOR'S DAY 9: THREE O'CLOCK: Mister Coquelet at the court of petty sessions; he admires this institution which shelters impudent people and the undertakings of corrupt beings

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THE BACHELOR'S DAY 9: THREE O'CLOCK: Mister Coquelet at the court of petty sessions; he admires this institution which shelters impudent people and the undertakings of corrupt beings

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MONOMANIACS 5: THE REGULATOR: The word regulator normally applying to a type of machine, may wall also be applied to the individual above. One finds in Paris, said to be the most spiritual town in the most spiritual country in the Universe, several dozen particular men whose sole intellectual occupation is to regulate, each day, their watch on the shot of midday from the canon of the Royal Palace. Here, gunpowder makes those happy who will never set the world on fire

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Parliamentary Scenes 7: The elector’s family We arrived in Paris just this morning and straight away said to ourselves: Let's find our Deputy, he’ll show us the interior of the Pantheon, and of the Invalides, and of the Royal Palace, and of the Well of Grenelle..

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Parliamentary Scenes 7: The elector’s family We arrived in Paris just this morning and straight away said to ourselves: Let's find our Deputy, he’ll show us the interior of the Pantheon, and of the Invalides, and of the Royal Palace, and of the Well of Grenelle..

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Bake bread in the shape of a clay figurine and Dokkie cookies that look like potshards! – Making a Shakochan cake using Dogu Anpan 2 (a bean-jam bun with the motif of a clay figurine)

JOMON ARCHIVES; Digital Archives of the Jomon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan

JOMON ARCHIVES; Digital Archives of the Jomon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan

Conjugal Manners 29: This is the moment (past midnight) when calm and peace truly reign in happy households. Better late than never

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PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 14: Below the upper vignette: Lucien Murat and Antony Thouron, whom they persist in calling Thouret, we don't know why; Below the lower vignette: The President's hat serving as a snuffer of discussion

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NEWS 110: －Great Prince Muley, son of Muley, do you deign to place yourself in the shade beneath this object... the Englishman who had the kindness to make over this object to me for a hundred gold pieces told me that it was of excellent use in all the storms of life... －Let me be... it's useless... the day when the French took away my parasol, I caught sunstroke from which I shall never recover!..

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Ancient History 50: The clemency of Minos. Happy the pale human, who in this black refuge / Arrives, while Minos reads his Charivari; / He is sure to be forgiven, for we know that all judges / Are disarmed when they have laughed (Poetic little advertisement)

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LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 67: THE SHIRTMAKER: Sir, I’ve made everything there that’s most suitable... with a shirt of my style you can appear in whichever salon [you wish] and you’ll always be the best dressed man of the entire company..

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MEMORIES OF THE PEACE CONGRESS [2]: SECOND MEETING: An American orator proves in an irrefutable manner that the only means of pacifying humankind is to force all men to wear, like him, a green hat, which they should never remove except in the evenings, when going to bed. No one even dared to contest this opinion

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LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 68: A FASHIONABLE SUIT: －Sir, I swear that this suit is very becoming!... －Yes it's becoming and economical... with a similar [short] jacket you can perfectly well open the door when [the bell], is rung, and pass yourself off as your own man-servant!..

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NEWS 155: One of the slight inconveniences of Macadamization. － More than that [amount] of dust... go and take a stroll along the Boulevard!..

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