This paper deals with the analysis of verbs of emotion of Dubois / Dubois-Charlier 1997 in Les Verbes français. Their results will be contrasted with those of Kailuweit 2005. Although the number of verbs is not equal (ca. 2000 in Dubois / Dubois-Charlier 1997 and only 520 in Kailuweit 2005) and the approaches are quite different (syntactic versus semantic), there are interesting parallels, especially as far as the classification of two-place verbs is concerned. Therefore, Kailuweit 2005 could be seen at least in part as a semantic foundation of the classes established by the impressing compilation created by Dubois / Dubois-Charlier 1997.