The Dog Shearer

Dr. Gervais

"Yes...I deliver you...good little blacks..."

Evocation of Kundry

Homage to Victor Hugo

Say so, Miroux . . .

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

The Mother of the Singer: "And to think that this miser of a director was sour-faced to give 60,000 francs a year to an angel who sings like that!"

I have to say that those little bootlettes there would have kept company with no small number of boots!, p. 121

This Mrs. de Lieusaint, she's stupid!

Aristocratie Financiere

"Oh! Papa, papa... here's a beautiful..."

The Dream of the Inventor of a Needle Rifle