My Mother Repeatedly Trying to Take a Shower at the Hotel in Hakone

My Mother in a Hotel Room in Hakone

My Family in a Hotel in Hakone

My Mother in Hakone

My Family at a Hotel in Hakone

My Mother in a Hotel Room, Kyoto

My Mother at Age Twenty (from a Photograph): as a Study for Félicité in "A Simple Heart" of Gustave Flaubert

TRAGIC PHYSIOGNOMIES 4: HAMLET “Take this urn and swear to me upon it,...” “Your mother, my son, was no criminal...” “Dare you do it, I believe in you!...”

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 19: A VANITY SATISFIED: －Oh! at last!... the Monitor has recorded my “very good”... naming me in full... about time, too... at least my constituents will no longer say I don't speak in the Chamber!..

SKETCHES OF AUTUMN 1: －What... you're going to press grapes with your feet ?... －Well!...they're not at all dirty... anyway, I've taken care to take my shoes off!..

NEWS 66: A REPLASTERING:－ My little chap, you demolish [it] in vain!...I’m going to replaster that very thing!..

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!..

NEWS 33: A MORNING VISIT TO THE ÉLYSÉE: －But Mister Véron, you leave only one sub-prefecture at my disposal!

COSSACKS TO LAUGH AT or COSSACKS FOR A LAUGH 17: Oursikoff!... do you think this is a likeness?... －No, Sire!... －Right...... I'd have sent you to Siberia if you had recognised me... all these bad caricatures from LE CHARIVARI won't prevent my being still the most handsome man in my empire!... －Yes,Sire!.....

THRILLS OF THE HUNT 1: －I think I've got a hare in its form... what luck!... －Wait[,]... we're going to see if you've got a hunting permit..., my good fellow!..

Caricaturana 48: A candidate: Whom do you need?... A man of probity, conscientious, a serious man, a manufacturer, a man who doesn't need the government in order to become rich, a man familiar with the law, who knows it well, from experience, from long experience... A long experience of the law... You couldn't make a better choice, take my... take my honourable friend

MISADVENTURES AND DISAPPOINTMENT OF MR.GOGO 2: My son, you are wrong to risk your money in shares, the Stock Exchange is a den of swindlers, bitumen is a beastliness, the mines are precipices,... a wise man should enjoy his fortune quietly... －It's true, mother, I'm wrong, but I need some thousands of francs, and I've come to ask you... －My God!... I'd give it with pleasure... but ... frankly!... the card game ruined me this winter..

The Blue-stockings 18: Oh my idolised Victor... a poetic idea has come to me!..

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!..

IN CHINA 8: －To think that in France, I had so much trouble in getting one of them, and here, here I am with two on my arm... what a swanky place!..

MISADVENTURES AND DISAPPOINTMENT OF MR.GOGO 4: But my dear Gogo, you're joking, how can you leave in your business the three thousand francs my daughter brings you, and the two hundred thousand francs for which you are indebted to her?... do you consider that? to expose the fortune of my child to the risks of commerce!... and if you don't succeed,... if you die, my daughter will then be ruined?... not so, not so, if you please! you're going to marry according to dowry regulations, to put into a good mortgage,... Devil take it! I should foresee a separation, today you're a friend, tomorrow you're not, you see it all the time

MISADVENTURES AND DISAPPOINTMENT OF MR.GOGO 4: But my dear Gogo, you're joking, how can you leave in your business the three thousand francs my daughter brings you, and the two hundred thousand francs for which you are indebted to her?... do you consider that? to expose the fortune of my child to the risks of commerce!... and if you don't succeed,... if you die, my daughter will then be ruined?... not so, not so, if you please! you're going to marry according to dowry regulations, to put into a good mortgage,... Devil take it! I should foresee a separation, today you're a friend, tomorrow you're not, you see it all the time

TRIVIAL THINGS 7: －Come to dinner, my wife dines in town: we will be fellows together. －Ah,deuce,I have a migraine! (aside) and his wife who is waiting for me at home!

Strangers in Paris 3: What is called dining in a restaurant: －Waiter!...I've been in your establishment for an hour and a quarter without having a chair...and you've still only given the tooth-picks to my wife who's dying of hunger... you'll make me lose my normal posture, and I'll end up with my feet in the dish... do you understand, waiter! －There now, Sir... there there now, there there!!!

THRILLS OF THE HUNT 13: －It's no use their having told me their guns are charged only with small shot, it's no less deeply upsetting to have my head aimed at like this for the next three hours!... I tremble in case they dream they meet a rabbit!..