What a beautiful play! Always the same: its been forty years that that lover has been marrying his beloved., p. 13

"May I introduce my son Théophile..."

Evariste Parny

Sketches of a Path, a Fence, a Shoreline, and a Log

"Ah! You are my husband, ah! you are the master..."

Sheet Music: The Handsome Heartbreaker

My aunt Amelia says you're really nice; it's too bad you're so silly.

"Robert--Toussaint--Macaire--Louverture..."

I am like that character of Henri Monnier who doesn't like spinach. I don't like the piano, and I am happy about that because if I did like the piano, my wife would play the hunting-horn., p. 27

Mme Natanson

A. du Sommerard

L'Ouverture de la Chasse (The opening of the hunting season)

Landscape Number 36