Who will shoot down the Republic? –Gentlemen, this mark is too high for you to be able to reach it!, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, February 26, 1872

The Third-Class Carriage

The Connoisseur

–Come on, you scoundrel, come on! –Just you wait, you crook! –Oh come on Alfred, after all you've known each other for some twenty years!, from 'Parisian sketches,' published in Le Petit Journal pour Rire, March 8, 1874

The assemby in Versailles: In January –Wretched winter!... In June –Scoundrel of a summer!...