En voil? un genre agr?able!.., 1842. 'Monsieur s'amuse ? lire le soir et il s'endort, quand il se r?veille il prend son livre, ? quatre heures il revient de son bureau il me demande son volume, et il pr?tend que rien ne m'amuse'. A nice state of affairs! Wife: 'Monsieur enjoys reading in the evening and he falls asleep, when he wakes up he takes his book, at four o'clock he comes back from his office and asks me for his volume, and he claims that nothing amuses me'. Series: Moeurs conjugales (Mores of Married Life), 57; Periodical: Le Charivari, 24 July 1842.