The parliamentary trains: One was for, the other against the government's proposal, from 'News of the day,' published in Le Charivari, January 27, 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!...