Administrative Customs: Supernumerary

Le Cocu battu et content, from "Contes et nouvelles en vers par Jean de La Fontaine. A Paris, de l'imprimerie de P. Didot, l'an III de la République, 1795"

Jean-Louis Delignon, After Jean Honoré Fragonard, Jean de La Fontaine, Pierre Didot l'ainé

Practical application for a diamond hypnotist, from 'News of the Day,' published in Le Charivari, January 24, 1860

Honoré Daumier, Destouches, Aaron Martinet

1812 or Regency à la Mode

William Heath ('Paul Pry')

“- 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

Dress Completed, plate three of Progress of the Toilet

James Gillray

A Loge

Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Les Actrices: J'avais demande un petit chapeau!

Paul Gavarni

The Torn Bouquet

Antoine-Jean Duclos

Le Repentir Tardif (The Tardy Repentance)

Nicolas Lavreince

Childhood

Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Les Lorettes

Paul Gavarni

The Stays, plate one from Progress of the Toilet

James Gillray