To bless the newborn child, I am dancing in front of the house

(Attracted to the Child)

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!..

My Mother Smoking in Back of Our House

JOURNEY TO CHINA 9: A CHINESE DANCE.One is greatly mistaken if one believes the Chinese people to be giddy, joyful and the friend of pleasure: they are on the contrary serious and morose, since their greatest amusement consists in a type of lugubrious walking in which the men and women walk one in front of the other, or one beside the other, and seem to be saying among themselves: brother we should die! In order also to point to the philosophical intention behind this ceremony, the opposite of dancing, they call it: Counter-dancing

NEWS 179: The soothsayers of diplomacy not daring to broach the Prussian-bird in order to know what to believe

NEWS 179: The soothsayers of diplomacy not daring to broach the Prussian-bird in order to know what to believe

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 63: THE NEIGHBOURS BEFORE THE JUSTICE OF THE PEACE: Well, I won the case all the same, and you won't be so stuck-up now, Mrs. Pimbèche... because the Justice of the Peace has sentenced you to go back to your house which backs on to mine!..

TENANTS AND LANDLOADS 5: －Why, madam..., I am unwise enough to absent myself from my property for some months and this is the state in which I find you... I give you twenty four hours' notice to leave... I don't even know that I don't have the right to claim damages from your husband!..

(Man Holding Child in ｆront of the TV)

Then, I decided to give a tour of Tokyo to the octopus from Akashi

When I went to give blessings, I loved to talk to the women and to hear their joys and their sorrows

NEWS 186: －Doctor, I assure you that I am not as ill as you say I am!..

Children in Front of the Gateway to the Heian Tokugikai Orphanage

The Blue-stockings 3: Goodbye, my dear, I am going to my editors’..

I try so hard to please Ayesha, to make jokes. To win her back, I even bought a computer, but..

NEWS 34: Oh! heavens, Madeleine!... I'm sure you let that child shout Long live the Republic in the street!..

I had little gajras (flower bracelets) of jasmine made to welcome each guest

Childish Acts 1: I don't want to get into so much water... there'll be a lot of big fish in there

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!

[NEWS] 185: Attached through their grandeur to the bank of the Seine, the ministers Parrieu and Rouher consoled themselves at not being able to pass the holidays in their mountains by dancing a bourrée from their birthplace, behind the closed doors of one of the rooms in the Ministry of Justice

Very good! very good! you are behaving perfectly! we are going to take you to Beaulieu, to Poissy, to Bicêtre, I am pleased with you

Sketches Taken by Daumier at the Exhibition 4: －Personally, what I like in the sculpture room is that you can always find somewhere to sit down!..

Monticola solitarius came to my house entrance. First meeting

La Tauromaquia [The Bullfight]: Dreadful events in the front rows of the ring at Madrid and death of the mayor of Torrejon