New Entertainment at the Parisian Evening Parties. The spirit of Mr. Hume shaving the beard of Monsieur de St. Potard and undoing the hair of Madame Coffignon, plate 8 from Ces Bons Parisiens

Nouveau Divertissement des Soirées Parisiennes, from Ces Bons Parisiens, published in Le Charivari, April 16, 1857

Honoré Daumier, Destouches, Aaron Martinet

La Walse, from Le Bon Genre

Hannah Humphrey

Pochades de carnaval: C'est singulier! elle me dit que je suis Philibert Désormeaux, et que je passe pour un imbecile!! ....où diable à-t-elle sù cela?

Clémente Pruche

English Exhibitions in Paris or French People Astonished at Our Improvement in the Breed of Fat Cattle

Thomas Rowlandson

The Theatre: The Last Scene

Honoré Daumier, Charles Maurand, François Louis Schmied

Rifolard opens the ball and executes a bold dancing step forward, which receives widespread praise, plate 5 from Les Banqueteurs

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Carnaval

Paul Gavarni

Plate 16: Robert Macaire matrimonial agent, from 'Caricaturana,' published in Les Robert Macaires

Honoré Daumier, Charles Philipon, Aubert et Cie, Junca, Aubert et Cie

Les Graces - Inconveniences in Quadrille Dancing

George Cruikshank

La Poule

George Cruikshank

“- Hey, Baptiste, what are these two shouting for the last hour… I am sure they are fighting! - Oh no, they make such funny movements, that's hilarious… I've got it: the are rehearsing a tragedy which they will perform at the party of Madame Follemèche… Lucky the bourgeois who can afford with his income to enjoy such entertainments… the man is almost as funny as the clown of the Folies-Nouvelles!,” plate 11 from Les Comédiens De Société

Honoré-Victorin Daumier

Carnaval

Paul Gavarni