You must show pictures to man: reality annoys him!

A Concert Announcement

Papa, here is your straw man!

M. Prudhomme: "You see, oh! my son...there's another innocent victim struck by the murderour bullet! poor duck..."

"Ah! You want to provoke the crowd!"

Hamlet

Robert Macaire, Merchant

Ah! Money is rare!

The Sphinx: "My gaze, which nothing can deflect, passes through the things and remains fixed on an inaccessible horizon." The Chimera: "I am weightless and joyful."

"The cut of this gentleman scarcely recalls..."

"Gentlemen, for having saved the fatherland..."

If one had enough funds to buy all the consciences . . .

"Me, I love the sculpture gallery, where you can always find a place to sit down!"