Inside a Butcher's Shop in Paris. “Come on my dear..... I know it is tough to sell our beef as cheap as that..... but that's no reason to weep like a calf!,” plate 75 from Actualités

The Despair of the Butcher. “- Just imagine: Anybody can establish himself as a butcher! Ah! There are moments when I feel like taking my meat chopper and cutting myself in two halves like a simple veal,” plate 458 from Actualités

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“- Well, if you want to liberate the butchers' commerce, why are you against my weighing a few bones with the meat?… you are really strange, same as ever!,” plate 472 from Actualités

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“- Madeleine, how could you ever accept a piece of meat like this one? - Madame, the butcher told me that the meat commerce will be free, therefore he took the liberty of giving me this piece,” plate 463 from Actualités

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“- Mister butcher, I wish you a happy and healthy New Year… - What? This is going to be a nice one, this 1858… every grocer around the corner will be able to sell my mutton!…,” plate 481 from Actualités

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Line in Front of the Butcher Shop

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“- I would have so much loved to make him a butcher too... now I am forced to make him a lawyer,” plate 467 from Actualités

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A Small Queue at the Entrance to the Palace of Industry. “- But I am telling you that I have a special entry permit! - Quite so, and this is why you are allowed to queue up already at the Obelisk.... otherwise you would have to start on the other side, close to the Etoile.... incidentally why not have a bite to eat while you are waiting... there is a charming little restaurant half way, plate 7 from Les Etrangers à Paris

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“- I bought this ground at 1 franc per square meter, and I'll sell it again at 9 francs. - To whom? - The name does not matter as long as I make 8 francs on the square meter... after all, it's not excessive, a square meter on the Boulevard Montmartre costs 600 francs! - Yes, but this section here is uninhabited. - What do you mean, there are more than 20'000 rabbits living here,” plate 1 from Les Spéculateurs

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Calf's Head and Ox Tongue

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Interior of a Butcher Shop

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“- You know my dear, you'll never believe this, but I think I would love to have some horse-meat for dinner tonight! - There we go.... my wife must be pregnant!,” plate 1 from Ces Bons Bourgeois

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“- And your bourgeois - is he for freedom of the butcher's trade?,” plate 464 from Actualités

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