Mutual Relation of the Object and the Image in the Infinity, or the Hollow Head and the Pump Bottom

Mutual Relation of the Object and the Image in the Infinity, or the Young Woman and the Cylinder

NEWS 163: THE NAPOLEONIC CONSTITUTIONNEL: The Constitutionnel places itself heroically at the head of the Frankish corps recruited from the rue de Valois and the rue de Poitiers to uphold the cause of Prince Louis

THE BACHELOR'S DAY 10: 5 O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON: Mr Coquelet you're an unsociable being, d'you understand with your dog; that's twice when I've had 149, he jumps on the table and jumbles it all up. Your dog's and accomplice!... and you're an old cheat

MUSICAL SKETCHES 3: AT THE CHAMPS-ELYSEES. It has never been known whether it is the music which makes the beer go down, or the beer which makes one swallow the music

Chimera of the imagination: My God! What if I am going to have a child with the head of La Poire...or even a Lobeau...a d'Argout...a Soult...a Dupin... Oh! my God!! a Kératry!!!!

Chimera of the imagination: My God! What if I am going to have a child with the head of La Poire...or even a Lobeau...a d'Argout...a Soult...a Dupin... Oh! my God!! a Kératry!!!!

TRAGIC PHYSIOGNOMIES 3: ATHALIE “But I found no less than a horrible mingling “Of bone and flesh murdered and dragged throught the mire...!”

PASTORALS 22: －I tell you you've moved the boundary stone and you've moved it forward on to my field!... And I'm telling you I haven't... and I'll maintain in front of all the courts that it's due to my father, and even my grandfather, that my boundary's where it is!... Ah! but!..

PASTORALS 22: －I tell you you've moved the boundary stone and you've moved it forward on to my field!... And I'm telling you I haven't... and I'll maintain in front of all the courts that it's due to my father, and even my grandfather, that my boundary's where it is!... Ah! but!..

PASTORALS 22: －I tell you you've moved the boundary stone and you've moved it forward on to my field!... And I'm telling you I haven't... and I'll maintain in front of all the courts that it's due to my father, and even my grandfather, that my boundary's where it is!... Ah! but!..

Affectation 1: There Sir!... and then after this, you're going to run off to see the others!..

NEWS 116: An Autodafé in the 19th century: － a touching religious ceremony organised with the solicitude of the reverends Montalembert and Veuillot

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

NEWS 299: IN A GARDEN AT AUTEUIL: Becoming more and more misanthropic as a result of his political vexations and wishing to flee the world completely, doctor Véron withdrew to the bottom of his cravat

TRIVIAL THINGS 6: －Is it to you or to the Gentleman who's your brother that I have the honour of speaking? －It is to my brother, Sir

MONOMANIACS 3: THE EXPERT: There are Experts and Experts, as there are Uncouth Peolple and Uncouth People. Firtly [there is] the Expert who knows (this is the rarest type); then the Expert who knows nothing, or knows stupid and useless things, that is to say, less than nothing. The Expert of these different categories passes for a profound, serious man; he is in a very good position, and makes a reputation in the world, like all who are hollow. He passes his days full of pleasures and free from failings, except that he is subject to the Cross of Honoour and the Academy

MONOMANIACS 3: THE EXPERT: There are Experts and Experts, as there are Uncouth Peolple and Uncouth People. Firtly [there is] the Expert who knows (this is the rarest type); then the Expert who knows nothing, or knows stupid and useless things, that is to say, less than nothing. The Expert of these different categories passes for a profound, serious man; he is in a very good position, and makes a reputation in the world, like all who are hollow. He passes his days full of pleasures and free from failings, except that he is subject to the Cross of Honoour and the Academy

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 63: THE NEIGHBOURS BEFORE THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE: Well, I won the case all the same, and you won't be so stuck-up now, Mrs. Pimbèche... because the Justice of the Peace has sentenced you to go back to your house which backs on to mine!..

Strangers in Paris 4: Some slight purchases: Oh!...the beautiful shawls... would you buy me one, dear?... －What!... why didn't you say straightaway that you wanted everything, and we could have started by simply buying up the whole la Ville de Paris shop!..

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 8: THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL FRIEND: Ah! dear friend; how stout you've become... let me embrace you! let me embrace you! (the instant after, it was nothing but a mistake and the gentleman discovers that his extempore friend wished to make the acquaintance of... his watch!)

Ancient History 11: The sword of Damocles

THE ALARMISTS AND ALARMED. 6: －Sir, it's a three sou letter... －Is it the done thing to knock on the door for a three sou letter...I had a fright!... I thought they'd come to ask me for my weapons..

THE ALARMISTS AND ALARMED. 6: －Sir, it's a three sou letter... －Is it the done thing to knock on the door for a three sou letter...I had a fright!... I thought they'd come to ask me for my weapons..

[NEWS 134]: THE HYPNOTISING DIAMOND. The new amusement for evening gatherings. － or the means to amuse oneself and squint in society, without taking offence..