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Original Text:
Mr. Prudhomme visitant les ateliers à l'approche de l'exposition de peinture.
- Je ne saurais me tromper, c'est un paysage.... charmant, charmant.. si j'avais embrassé l profession d'artiste, je n'aurais peint que des paysages, c'est plus décent mais pourquoi ce soleil a-t-il si peu de rayons?...... - Parceque c'est la lune!.....
- Ah!.... charmant, charmant, charmant.... voilà de ces tableaux que l'on peut montrer aux dames!...

Translation:
Monsieur Prudhomme pays a visit to the studio before the opening of the exhibition.
- I may be wrong.... but isn't this a landscape?.... charming absolutely charming.... had I taken up the profession of a painter, I would have painted landscapes only. It's by far more decent, but why does the sun have so few beams?
- It is the moon, Monsieur.
- Of course, charming, charming. At last, these are the kind of paintings one may also show to the ladies.