Ancient History 29: Telemachus and Mentor. Seeing his languorous pupil. / Burning for Eucharis with a fire always new / Mentor, with a punch, pitched him straight into the water / To make him abandon the island (Unique quatrain by Mr. Duponchel)

TRIVIAL THINGS 4: －Don't leave your friend in that state! －Him my friend!...that's my doorkeeper

TRIVIAL THINGS 4: －Don't leave your friend in that state! －Him my friend!...that's my doorkeeper

Conjugal Manners 24: I'm always telling you, with your sugar..

PASTORALS 1: －Come back here again... you great wheedler!... bite his calves puppy, bite his calves!... －Good God!... I'd never been acquainted with the force of that power there...concerning the punch

Petty Cleverness, Great Daring, monkey with a gourd catcing a catfish

Conjugal Manners 34: I should have bet on it ... instead of taking him to see Séraphin, you take him to play ... It's already bad enough for grown-ups; poor little dear! ... －－ Don't worry, Madam, that's the way children amuse themselves!

「とてつるけんひとりけいこ」

「とてつるけんひとりけいこ」

「とてつるけんひとりけいこ」

「とてつるけんひとりけいこ」

TRIVIAL THINGS 1: Eleven degrees centigrade! what a bad turn it gives you! and they call this a year of mercy!

Ancient History 30: Dionysius the tyrant. If he chooses this condition in his sorry fortune, / It is because in the matter of schools / Tyrants always make too much of it, / So that they can fine one [school] in their old age (The late Barthelemy)

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 64 : Inconvenient to have a relative called Babylas, which obliges [you] to go and take him a bouquet on 24 January

It is always with the deepest sadness..

It is always with the deepest sadness..

It is always with the deepest sadness..

Papas 20: Oh! Sir... you shouldn't laugh at him like that..

Proverbs and Maxims 12: There's a sucker! personally, I agree with the proverb: “What's good to take is good to keep.”

NEWS 105: THE REJUVENATION OF THE CONSTITUTIONEL [sic] FOLLOWING THE REJUVENATION OF AESON: I read in Mr. de Chompre's book that the aged Aeson was in earlier times perfectly rejuvenated by making him simmer in a stew-pot with a multitude of small spices, such as marshmallow roots, lizard, sticks of liquorice and toads... but the precise recipe of this stew has been lost... I have imagined new ingredients, but unfortunately they are devilishly expensive! I think I would have done better to preserve my old fellow by －having him stuffed by Mr. Gannat!

SKETCH OF THE DAY 28: You know the fat deputy from opposite, who's a representative at 25 francs a day, well, this morning I read off the newspaper that they'd given him a commission! －A commission pays generally seventy five centimes without even a written decision... on that day he should've made 25 francs 15 sous, what luck!

Ancient History 38: Mars and Venus. In this erotic snare / Seeing these lovers, all the gods were taken / By that famous Homeric laughter, / Reserved since that time for unfortunate husbands (Familiar quatrain by Mr. A...)

NEWS 200: A VISIT TO THE CONVICT-PRISON IN NAPLES: Mr.Gladstone－ And what do you call this man? he doesn't look like a villain. The Gaolor－ Don't you believe any of it, on the contrary,he's a demagogue, an old constitutional minister of 1848 called Carlo Poërio. In his inexhaustible clemency the best and most worthy of kings ordered that we chain him to an assassin, so that he might return to the good. He'd have been completely lost if we'd left him with another demagogue

WHEN YOU'RE UNLUCKY 2: And not even a bit of powder!..

Parisian Boating Men 14: A man in to the sea: －Harpoon him more vigorously... we won’t get him without! －And you, hold his legs in the air, that’s the important thing!... nothing gives you a cold more than getting the soles of your feet wet!..