I hope to prove one day that in the hands of a magpie, a feather is no less valuable than in the claws of a wolf or the legs of a fox, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

She posed herself as a superior owl, and was just a ridiculous owl, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, François Rouget, Honoré de Balzac

And yet we add that, outside the theater, these animals are even more ugly, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Pierre François Godard, Honoré de Balzac

Old, broken, haggard, whimsical, yet good, yet dedicated, and domestic by temperament, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Charles Tamisier, Honoré de Balzac

This old court apparently has an old falcon..., from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Louis-Henri Brevière, Honoré de Balzac

The studies are painful, expensive; but the students are intrepid, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Joseph Hippolyte Jules Caqué, Honoré de Balzac

He was a regular on the front lines..., from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Joseph Hippolyte Jules Caqué, Honoré de Balzac

He had only his beautiful colors..., from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Andrew Best Leloir, Honoré de Balzac

I ordinarily opened the ball with the prettiest villager, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Joseph Hippolyte Jules Caqué, Honoré de Balzac

My captor was one of the king's lackeys, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Joseph Hippolyte Jules Caqué, Honoré de Balzac

He has each of them, as they say in the journals devoted to the fine arts, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Charles Tamisier, Honoré de Balzac

At this frightful story, Zemire throws himself at Azor's feet, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Honoré de Balzac

As the new Actaeon, I surprised Diana, not in her bath but with a dealer in the bathroom, from "Little Miseries of Human Life"

J. J. Grandville, Paul-Emile-Daurand Forgues, Brugnot, Henri Fournier