The Opera of the Nineteenth Century

Young Lady with Blond Hair/Cover of sheet music

Memory of St. Valery on Somme

"Me, I am well supplied...the rest is all the same to me."

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!"

The Woman with the Beard: What impudence! You dare come hunting on my lands!"

"Hey there, what are you doing there, M. Crunichon? ...I trust you aren't counting on catching something by sitting on the grass?"

M. Fualdes Entrainé chez Bancal

The Chinese Justice

"Explain to me, then, Mr. Badoulard..."

General Jean-Andoche Junot, Duke of Abrantes

"The Seine is a river that has its source..."

Lecture by the Prefect