Inventaire [English translation]

one tripe shop

two stones three flowers one bird

twenty two gravediggers one love

the raccoon

one Mrs whatshername

one lemon one loaf of bread

one big sunbeam

one tidal wave

one pair of throusers

one door with its doormat

one gentleman honoured with the Legion of Honour

the raccoon

one sculptor scuplting Napoleons

the flower that is called worry1

two lovers on one large bed

one Nice2 carnival

one chair three turkeys one ecclesiastic

one boil one wasp

one floating kidney3

one dozen oysters

one racing stable

one undeserving son

two dominican fathers

three grasshoppers one folding seat one lady of the night

three or four uncle Bobs

the raccoon

one sorrowful mother two sugar daddies

three nightingales tho pairs of sabots five dentists

one man of the world

one woman of the world

one set of black cutlery two closets4

two petit-suisse5 one day of atonement

one cow one samovar

one good laugh6

one elegant gentleman one kite

one bunch of bananas one ant one colonial expedition

one exclusion zone three umbilical chords

one superintendent's dog one day of glory

one truss

one friday evening

one chair renter7 one hen's egg

one old hand

three military men

one François the first

two Nikolaï the second

three Henri the third

the raccoon

one Santa Claus

two Latin sisters

three dimensions

one thousand and one nights

seven wonders of the world four cardinal points

1 2 3 4 o'clock sharp twelve apostoles

forty five years of good and faithful service

two years in jail six or seven capital sins

three musketeers

twenty thousand leagues under the see

thirty two positions

two thousands years before Christ

five drops after each meal

forty minutes of intermission

one off-guard moment

and of course

the raccoon

1. "souci" both means "marigold" and "worry"2. the city in Southern France3. the medical condition also known as kidney ptosis4. or maybe "lavatories"5. the name of this sort of cottage cheese means "small swiss"6. lit "[se payer] une pinte de bon sang" ([to have] a pint of good blood)7. a woman renting chairs in a church or a park. Don't know if that still exists or if there are similar businesses in English speaking countries

• Artist:Jacques Prévert
• Album:Paroles (1946)