"- My God! Madame Bombec, what happened to you? - Don't mention it, my dear, it's horrible. The world is going from bad to worse, I would rather be janitor at the botanical garden! You know that Bézuchet from the fifth floor, the one that always insists that her good-for-nothing daughter who is fat around the hips has become..... I only replied: Ah, well! - And that's the person who… - Of course, even a blind man can see that!,” plate 30 from Types Parisiens 1840

"“My God! Madame Bombec, what happened to you? - Don’t mention it, my dear, it’s horrible. The world is going from bad to worse, I would rather be janitor at the botanical garden! You know that Bézuchet from the fifth floor, the one that always insists that her good-for-nothing daughter who is fat around the hips has become… I only replied: Ah, well! - And that’s the person who… - Of course, even a blind man can see that!” is a lithograph by Honoré Daumier from his series *Types Parisiens* published in 1840. This plate depicts a conversation between two Parisian women, a humorous satire on the social gossiping of the times, and a prime example of Daumier’s style. The image features an expressive use of line and shading, a characteristic of Daumier’s lithographs, which was well suited for capturing the details of Parisian life, and the humor of everyday people in the mid-19th century."