1847

William Makepeace Thackeray, author of “La Foire aux Vanités”

William Makepeace Thackeray Breguet

"As for "tickers", (…) her apartments were alive with their clicking. Tor, happening to mention one night that hers, (…) went ill, on the very next morning there came to her a little bijou marked Leroy (…) and another signed Breguet, which was covered with pearls (...)."
William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair, 1847-1848

윌리엄 새커리(1811-1863)는 영국 소설가이자 풍자문학가로 나폴레옹 전쟁 동안 영국 사회를 묘사한 소설인 ‘허영의 시장(Vanity Fair, 1847-1848)’으로 명성을 얻었다.