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

A Life: On the Street

On the Street of St. Michel, Paris

Baguettes are popular in the French territory of Tahiti

IN CHINA 21: To think that there is what the French call Chinese!..

PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 25: Below the upper vignette: A solicitor on the look-out for Bineau the Savage, minister of public works. Below the lower vignette: The friendship of a great man is a kindness of the gods! － Particularly on a rainy day and when the gutters are full

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

A Bohemian waxwing consumed a fruit of Ardisia japonica on the ground

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

Sado Mine in Aikawa is the symbol of the island. Shot with infrared film which was rare in those days

The Hundred-and-one Robert-Macaire [Caricaturana] 100: Mr. Daumier, your Robert-Macaire series is a charming thing!... It is the exact portrayal of the pilfering of our age... It is the faithful portrait of the crowd of rascals you find everywhere, in business, in politics, in finance, everywhere! everywhere!!... The cheats should hate you... But the estimation of honest people is yours... Have you still not received the cross of honour?... It's shocking!!..

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..

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

Resting his feet on a parking meter, a drunk sleeps it off on the hood of a car

A store with an abundance of wild strawberries, which only bear fruit for a shorttime in the spring

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

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

Reclinervellus nielseni sucking its host spider dry and weaving a cocoon on the web

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

SKETCHES BY DAUMIER 3: －Your client is a scoundrel who's murdered six women, and you're counting on extenuating circumstances. －Why of course!... the jury is composed entirely of married men

Buddhist leaders on a podium at a celebration rally after the collapse of the Ngoadministration

Affectation 2: I said to myself: do they think we're from the rue des Lombards?... There's a little air about you which is not that of a confectioner at all

From your humble little squirts / Receive, on your birthday, / Two types of bouquet / For the opening of which prepare yourself. / They will please you, because the French people / Alone have met all the expenses

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!..

PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE ASSEMBLY 28: Below the upper vignette: A little meeting in the refreshment-room; Below the lower vignette: Arrival of a representative in a ‘colimaçon’