French is the official language on Martinique, which is a department of France.Film posters on the street

Baguettes are popular in the French territory of Tahiti

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Before coming to Japan, Lafcadio Hearn spent two years on Martinique in theWest Indies. A swimmer diving into the azure sea

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People gathering at an Etiopian Orthodox church. The man carrying a gun is possibily a militiaman

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THE COMET OF 1857 7: An aspect which the streets of Paris already begin to take on each evening

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NEWS: CHINA CIVILISING HERSELF. －Now then..., attention!... here's the European theory... the eyes looking fifteen paces into the distance and let the foot which is on the ground quickly go to rejoin that which is in the air..

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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

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An imposing barricade built on a street in Santo Domingo. Residents walk pastAmerican Marines on guard

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Album des Charges du Jour: THE EMPEROR MOROCCO CONSULTING THE CELEBRATED SORCERER DESBAROLLES. －Here is a little line which indicates to me that you are destined to receive a great drubbing!..

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A handbill posted by a successful candidate in the legislative elections in Okinawa,which was under the administrative authority of the United States

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JOURNEY TO CHINA 2: THE PASSPORT. The foreigner who visits China is submitted to an indispensable formality; he receives a slip of paper on which is written the age he wants to indicate, the profession he says he pursues and the place where it pleases him to appoint his birth; all that followed by a description of particulars which applies to everybody, after which, against a consideration of two francs, the Chinese government is deemed to lend him succour and assistance for one year

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The Representatives Represented 10: Henri de Larochejacquelein: The costume in which this citizen was got up on the day he went to the National Assembly to lodge his memorable proposal for President of the French Republic!...Abd-el-Kader

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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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LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 80: A PHILANTHROPIC LOTTERY: －The gentleman －for my twenty francs I've won a dreadful woman's bag... how ridiculous! －The lady －and I['ve won] a pair of razors one of which is badly dented... what a bore!..

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Drying shrimp fishing nets on the shore of Lake Kamo in Ryotsu where sea water enters freshwater lake. It is also a place for oyster farming

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Parisian Freebooters 12: The Crocodile: This has to do with a variety of species of Crocodile, which was known to the ancients under the name of Tantalus and which a Gymnasium naturalist of our time has called the Gastronome without money. This voracious whale-like creature is most commonly found in the localities of Merchants of Eatables. His teeth are pointed and very long from lack of exercise, since he uses only his eyes to devour. When he has had the perseverance to remain for a whole day static in front of his prey he sometimes ends up by having the luck to catch... a crick in the neck. He feeds himself only on desires and vain hopes, he is also remarkably thin. Very different from other fish of his species that swim in open water, this type of Crocodile is always in the dry

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NEWS 4: This shows you a great battle which one may believe to be commanded by General Crunch Beet! It will not enter the historical Museum of Versailles and should serve as a pendant to the Battles of Cannes

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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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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.)

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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.)

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The Representatives Represented 17: L. Ant. Garnier-Pagès: Ex-member of the provisional Government, ex-Mayor of Paris, ex-Minister of Finance; Garnier-Pagès has the habit of putting his hands in his pockets, which is a great proof of honesty, above all at a time when so many citizens like to dig their hands into their neighbours' pockets. --- We note besides that Garnier-Pagès is loved by all who know him, despite the fact that he has a slight wart on his forehead

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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..

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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..

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The Representatives Represented / The Legislative Assembly 13: Victor Hugo: You have just finished asking him a serious question, he gives himself up to sombre reflections - only the sombre reflection may illuminate the serious question! - he is also the most sombre of all the serious great men!

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PEOPLE OF THE LAW 37: －It certainly seems that my jolly fellow is a great villian... so much the better... if I succeed in having him acquitted, what credit to me!..

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Wakamatsu, Kitakyushu

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Misato

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Gjon Mili

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Ryodaishi Bridge, Ueno, Shitaya Ward (Taito Ward)

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Cheap hotels, Wakabacho

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Macau

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At a factory for bird feed

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Iejima Island

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Vienna

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Alley, Rome

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Yotsuya-Mitsuke

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Inspecting signboard for strip-show with grandfather

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(Night of Yokosuka, Town of Sailor)

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Tenjin, Fukuoka

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Close, No. 118 High Street

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Nihonjinnokeieisurutaishuushokudoumokokoniaru

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Paris

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I look like a sad Muslim woman after fighting with my Guru Chaman. We went on a vist to the graveyard to show Ayesha the ducks

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Street Advertising

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Shibuya

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「横浜・あのころ　飛鳥田市長」掲載 00026-00614-0030

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