Translation: “Is the amount correct? … You’re now going to demand a receipt on the pretext that since one is rich it is always necessary to give something!”
Honoré Daumier, French, 1808 - 1879
Chère Baronne, je vous félicite…
Les bons bourgeois: Recherche infructueuse de la planète Leverrier (The Good Bourgeois: Unfruitful Search for the Planet Leverrier)
Emma! …je vous aime!
Telemaque interrogé par les sages
Equitation boutiquière sur des chevaux de louage, et où il n’y a pas autre chose a louer…
Les Gens de Justice: Oui, on veut dépouiller cet orphelin … (Men of Justice: Yes, they want to plunder this orphan …)
Translation: “Yes, they want to plunder this orphan whom – it is true – I can’t call just a child, for his is 57 years old, but who is none […]