Paul Gavarni

Image Not Available for Gare les poules! [Beware of hens], plate 14 from Bohèmes [Bohemians], in Paris, 15 May 1853

Image Not Available for Rire de la pauvreté, mes bourgois, ce n’est que méchant…[To laugh at poverty, my dear bourgeois, is just malicious…], plate 1 from Les Petits mordent [Little Bites], in Paris, 14 January 1853

Image Not Available for Mosieu [sic] n’a pas le sou! --Et Mosieu [sic] a diné. Garçon, la faim justifie les moyens. [Sir does not have a penny! --And Sir had dinner. Garçon, hunger justifies the means.], plate 18 from Bohèmes [Bohemians], in Paris, 2 July 1853

Image Not Available for N’y a pas de doute, mon président, qu’à ma place vous n’auriez pas abîmé, comme ça, c’t [sic] homme là, vous! [Have no doubt, my president, that in my place you would not be damaged, like that, that man there, you!], plate 13 from Bohèmes [Bohemians], in

Image Not Available for Trop pittoresque [Too colorful], plate 15 from Bohèmes [Bohemians], in Paris, 7 June 1853

Image Not Available for Ma blanchisseuse! [My laundress!], plate 25 from Les Partageuses [The Sharers], in Paris, 12 March 1853

Image Not Available for Ça n’a encore été éduqué acunement … et déjà stupide! [This one has in no way been educated … and is already stupid!], plate 14 from Les Propos de Thomas Vireloque [The Remarks of Thomas Vireloque], in Paris, 19 May 1853

Image Not Available for Un’ poupée comme ça ca vaut cher … à cause du taffetas! [A doll like this is expensive … because of the taffeta!], plate 5 from Les Petits mordent [Little Bites], in Paris, 17 April 1853

Image Not Available for Sans profession. [Unemployed], plate 3 from Bohèmes [Bohemians], in Paris, 19 February 1853

Image Not Available for Les Bourgeois!… --Quel vénérable troupeau de muf’es! [sic] [The Bourgeois!… What a venerable herd of boors!], plate 10 from Les Petits mordents [Little Bites], in Paris, 23 November 1853

Image Not Available for Gare les poches! [Guard your pockets!], plate 9 from Bohèmes [Bohemians], in Paris, 27 April 1853