Excerpt from Some Family Letters of W. M. Thackeray: Together With Recollections by His Kinswoman Blanche Warre Cornish

The present writer cannot have been very old when she first remembers Mr. Thackeray in Paris, because when he offered her his arm on the Boulevard de la Madeleine, and said they would be taken for husband and wife, she felt sorry that French people should see such a tall, stately Englishman mated to such an insignificant little wife. Her hand went straight up from the shoulder to rest upon his arm, aunts were left behind, the green Boulevard trees stretched before, the stroll seemed long with gay vistas. It cannot, however, have extended far, for there was a halt before the windows of the famous confiseur, Boissier, on the next Boulevard - named des Capucines. Boissier"s boxes lay on a line with her eyes, and in the boxes were the bonbons in patterns.

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