The Ox-Elephant, a new and very promising breed. Unfortunately still beyond the financial possibilities of the average citizen.... price: 30'000 francs, plate 5 from L'exposition Des Animaux, 1856
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“- Oh, Madame Chaboulard, I wonder what will happen in the twelve months to come... the New Year starts on a Friday! … - I don't care, I am not superstitious… I only believe in the number 13 and in spiders!,” plate 477 from Actualités, 1858
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A Practical Joke. "Driver! Driver! Do you still have two seats in the rabbit section??,” plate 24 from Les Baigneurs, 1842
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“Hello, Angel, always pretty...,” plate 3 from Coquetterie, 1839
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“Oh blast! I don't seem to be able to tie a knot!” plate 4 from Coquetterie, 1839
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An Exaggerated Rejuvenation. “Just two or three sessions with me, Monsieur, and anyone who still claims to find a grey hair on you, is a malicious person.” As a matter of fact, since the end of the second session, Monsieur's head looks as shiny as that of a newborn baby, plate 52 from Les Beaux Jours De La Vie, published March 27, 1845
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Louis-Philippe, Last King if the French 1848. Design for a medal to be manufactured by the National Mint, 1848
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A country excursion during the beautiful month of May. “– Courage... Adelaïde it's just another league to go,” plate 308 from Actualités, 1856
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Mr. Prudhomme: “There you are again, my son... another innocent victim of the murderous lead.... poor little duck... pray, you never shall become a hunter, my son!” Young Adolph: “But Daddy, I'd rather like to be a hunter than a dead duck!,” plate 13 from Émotions De Chasse, 1858
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“Look! See how his eyes are on the saveloys and the ham.... it seems we like Papa's job?..... my little piglet!,” plate 51 from Moeurs Conjugales, 1842
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The Weight Lifter, c. 1850
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Markab, from Album I, 1955, published 1959
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Scylla and Charybds, plate 44 from Actualités, 1869
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Strange.. this is what the French call "Chinois,” plate 21 from En Chine, 1859
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Subscribers Tyring to Cope with Their Paper, plate 115 from Actualités, 1845
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Parisians already taking their precautions to avoid being roasted by the comet, plate 410 from Actualités, 1857
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“- So, Gringalet from Paris!.... you will dance twice with my Catherine ...... try again now to make sheep's eyes at her,” plate 27 from Pastorales, published October 28, 1845
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The source of the Seine is the Cote d'Or, and it empties into the Channel. On its way it traverses Paris where the inhabitants escape the summer's heat and try to find freshness and purity in this river, plate 3 from Les Baigneurs, 1839
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“- You know my dear, you'll never believe this, but I think I would love to have some horse-meat for dinner tonight! - There we go.... my wife must be pregnant!,” plate 1 from Ces Bons Bourgeois, 1856
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Another Great Man. “I have it in my hand, my dear... here it is in writing.... this document confirms that my invention is a well-pumped and infinitely more clysterized machine than anything invented thus far... all Frenchmen must accept that,” plate 36 from Les Beaux Jours De La Vie, 1844
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