The Paris Sketch Book is a collection of essays, tales and reviews written by Thackeray after living in France in the 1830s, and first published in the 1840s. It gives lively impressions of Parisian life, art, theatre, literature and manners, along with a few short stories. The writer appears under a comic pen name and views French habits with both amusement and admiration. It is an early work that shows his talent for observation and satire before his great novels.