One does not bother an honest man with trifles like this, from "Little Miseries of Human Life"

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

...Happy to get away with it so cheaply, from "Little Miseries of Human Life"

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

It is good that he coaxes and flatters her in front of her husband, from "Little Miseries of Human Life"

J. J. Grandville, Paul-Emile-Daurand Forgues, Auguste Barbant, Henri Fournier

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

I was deprived of the happiness to pick it up... I saw a hundred times an agile rival offer it smiling to our common goddess, from "Little Miseries of Human Life"

J. J. Grandville, Paul-Emile-Daurand Forgues, Auguste Barbant, Henri Fournier

Leftovers, from "Little Miseries of Human Life"

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

They began at once their frightful charivari, from "Little Miseries of Human Life"

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

He rose like those small sea monsters that decorate the fountains, from "Little Miseries of Human Life"

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

He was only waiting to make fun of the pursuer and the pursuit, from "Little Miseries of Human Life"

J. J. Grandville, Paul-Emile-Daurand Forgues, Victor Laisné, Henri Fournier

Did anyone ever forgive an awkward visit?, from "Little Miseries of Human Life"

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

Mèderic, delighted in the seventh heaven, leans over to check his conquest..., from "Little Miseries of Human Life"

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

The Chameleon declares that he is happy and proud to be, as always, of the same opinion as everyone, from "Scenes from the Private and Public Life of Animals"

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