commissionaires

Updated: July 17, 2025

Sir Francis is very much pleased with the Parisian street commissionaires or porters, and wonders that no such luxury is general in London. One day he invites the nearest commissionaire to visit his lodging, and tell him his whole story, which the man gladly did.

Various - Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 421 : Volume 17, New Series, January 24, 1852