Good evening then, my friend Lecteur..., from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

Papillonneries Humains, from "Le Magasin Pittoresque"

After Augustin de Saint-Aubin

As soon as I set foot on the island..., from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Honoré de Balzac

She responded to my protests and oaths with a tone of mockery so cold that I swore to die, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Honoré de Balzac

I urged them to eat some boiled eggs, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, Honoré de Balzac

The Sloth yawned: 'I had...waited', from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

J. J. Grandville, 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

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

What's that noise? and what does this scoundrel want?, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

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

The Tiger entered stealthily, the dagger in his hand, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

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

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"

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

There was once, in the camp there, two little hares with their sister, and then there was also a big bad bird who wanted to stop them from passing, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

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

The Five Stages, from "The Complete Works of Béranger"

J. J. Grandville, Henry Isidore Chevauchet, Fournier & Perrotin, Pierre Jean de Béranger