NEWS 165: Vexatious commercial situation of the Boulevard's galette sellers on days when the mud allows Parisians to move around only with the aid of tall stilts

NEWS 161: How macadam thwarts especially the galette business

PARISIANS TYPES 24: The Primary School Teacher: I will be honoured by your son!...what a pretty person!!!

PARISIANS TYPES 2: Don't bention it I've got a cold in the 'ead and can't see clearly ,by dear!..

THESE GOOD PARISIANS 13: THE PARISIAN － Tell me, worthy fellow, what do you do with all your cows when they become old and no longer give milk?... THE COW-HERD － Look here,... the tomfoolery.. you make beef out of them!..

Koma kurabe shoogi no tawamure Naribisha Coming to the Aid of the Cornered King

PARISIANS TYPES 31: Everything paid for? We've not been fololish to anyone!!...Cheerio

[NEWS 142]: PALMISTRY, THE NEW PASS-TIME OF GOOD PARISIANS － Adélaïde... I've searched in vain... I can't find the little line which foretells long life... my God!... must I die in the prime of life!..

Parisians 6: Well yes! As I say..

PARISIANS TYPES 1: Well, clever! how do you find him!... －Yes.yes...but in the end... －Yes...yes...yes!..

NEWS 154: Savage Bineau having at last found a use for his club on the boulevards[,] and making Parisians acquainted with all the charms of American roads

NEWS 41: The Union and the National Assembly trying to frighten Parisians with the help of a Cossack in the form of a baloon

THESE GOOD PARISIANS 8: THE NEW ENTERTAINMENT OF PARISIAN EVENING PARTIES. Mr. Hume's spirits shaving Mr. de St. Potard and undressing Mme. Coffignon's hair

NEWS 155: One of the slight inconveniences of Macadamization. － More than that [amount] of dust... go and take a stroll along the Boulevard!..

NEWS 80: New positions taken up by the Russians, since they have had to fight dysentery

PARISIANS TYPES 30: －My God! Missus Bombec, what hit you? －Don't mention it,dear lady, the horror! the world's become so ferocious that I'd rather be the gatekeeper at the zoo. You know that Bezuchet on the fifth floor who tells everyone that her not-so great daughter, whose filling out nicely round the waist, has become Whatdropical. Me, I just said: oh yeh! －And that's the creature that... －by Jove, flew into my face

Ancient History 4: Ulysses' introduction to Nausicaa. At the sight of the hero soiled with black mud, / All flee, but Nausicaa, in her naïve modesty; / Blushingly says to him, without quitting her laundry: / Which God, noble stranger, leads you to my wash-house? (Unpublished translation by Mr. Casimir Delavigne)

NEWS 118: The only costume truly appropriate to this person who was wrongly qualified for the title of Burgrave

PROFILES 7: THE FREQUENTER OF FÉLIX'S SHOP: Paris is at once the centre of civilisation, of the fine arts and of small pies; the love of the galette is pushed to fanaticism. Pastry cooks abound here, and today Paris is perhaps the city in the world where most brioches are made

7. The Stoop, Black, Expressionless Old Man Seemed to Crouch Deep Underground [from "From Nine Dreams"]

(Left) The little village on the far mountainside was already out of sight, and spring was coming around again. The grape trees were like large ailing snakes creeping under the coping stones of the wall. A brown light moved about in the tepid air. The void created by the selfsame every day is likely to chop down even the young trees that were left behind. In this everyday life, a thicket of trees protrudes like a boulder. (Right) The village I lived in has never been thought of as so small. The sun showed itself. The tall poplar forest looks like a beach being blown about by the wind. I grow dizzy just watching that seamless succession. If I can manage to get drunk on this succession of unchanging days, I can also grow to feel like I have taken down an elephant or snake. He differentiated things in this way, like a fluttering butterfly

Conjugal Manners 28: Decease of the poodle

NEWS 31: － What a selfish man!... sleeping when at this very moment the Autocrat raises soldiers!..

NEWS 119: LEGEND OF THE YEAR 1850: St. Montalembert, renouncing leading Parisians in the way of virtue, returns towards heaven, escorted by seraphim who wanted to help him in his pious enterprise. (Daumier pinxit)

NEWS 14: The emotion of Doctor Véron, believing himself to be pursued by an enraged dog