Mon Dieu! m'ame Bombec, qu? que vous avez donc attrapp??, 1842. 'Mon Dieu! M'ame Bombec qu? que vous avez attrap??' - 'Ne m'en parlez pas, ma ch?re dame, une horreur ! le monde devient d'une f?rocit? que j'aimerais mieux ?tre porti?re du jardin des plantes. Vous savez la B?zuchet du cinti?me qui dit partout que sa pas grand chose de fille qui s'arrondit pas mal de la taille, est devenue Heindropique. Moi, je m'ai content? de r?pondre: ah ouicht ! - Et c'est c'te cr?ature qui - Pardine?a saute aux yeux'. Parisan women gossiping, one with bandaged eye. First woman: 'My God! Madame Bombec, what happened to you?'. Second woman: 'Oh don't, my dear lady, it's awful! the world is becoming so ferocious that I would rather be the concierge of the botanical garden. You know that B?zuchet woman on the fifth [floor] who tells everyone that her little girl who has got quite rounded at the waist, has become Heindropic. I just replied: ah yes! - And it's this creature who - I'm sorry, well it's obvious'. Series: Types Parisiens; Periodical: Le Charivari, 11 June 1842.