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!
Télémaque interrogé par les sages (Telemachus Questioned by the 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 […]