Eugène Sue (1804–1857)
Author of The Mysteries of Paris
About the Author
Eugene Sue was a contemporary of Dickens and Thackeray. Immensely succesful, he was known as "the king of the popular novel." One of the most elegant members of Parisian society, he was a passionate horse-lover and eager to do all he could to help improve the quality of French bloodstock Alex de show more Jonge was an Oxford don for most of his professional life. He is the author of numerous books and articles on a wide variety of subjects and has appeared on A&E's Biography and The History Channel. He and his wife live on a horse farm in Virginia show less
Image credit: Eugène Sue (13 janvier 1844) de Richard James Lane, imprimé par C. Graf, publié par Goupil & Vibert, d'après Alfred, lithographie du comte d'Orsay
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Works by Eugène Sue
The Gold Sickle: or Hena, The Virgin of the Isle of Sen: A Tale of Druid Gaul (1904) 9 copies, 1 review
Les mystères du peuple ou l'histoire d'une famille de prolétaires à travers les âges (French Edition) (2003) 7 copies
The Carlovingian Coins; or, The Daughters of Charlemagne: A Tale of the Ninth Century (1908) 7 copies
De verborgenheden des volks 4 copies
The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution (2011) 4 copies
The Brass Bell: Or the Chariot of Death; A Tale of Caesar's Gallic Invasion (Classic Reprint) (2015) 3 copies
Collected Works of Eugène Sue 3 copies
Les Sept Péchés Capitaux: La Paresse; L'Avarice; La Gourmandise (Classic Reprint) (French Edition) (2017) 2 copies
La luxure , roman 2 copies
Mysteries of the People 08. Abbatial Crosier or Bonaik & Septimine; A Tale of a Medieval Abbess (2007) 2 copies
La salamandre 2 copies
Le prince Rodolphe 2 copies
The Branding Needle, or The Monastery of Charolles A Tale of the First Communal Charter (2011) 2 copies
Miss Mary o La institutriz 1 copy
Venganza africana 1 copy
Агасфер: Т. 3, Т. 4 1 copy
Tajnosti pařížské 4. (1924) 1 copy
Les Mystères de Paris III 1 copy
The Sword of Honor or The Foundation of the French Republic A Tale of The French Revolution (2022) 1 copy
De Verborgenheden des Volks of de geschiedenis van een arbeidersfamilie door de eeuwen heen (Eerste en Tweede boek) 1 copy, 1 review
Jeanne et Louise - Les Familles des transportés: Un roman historique d'Eugène Sue (French Edition) 1 copy
LOS MISTERIOS DE PARIS V III 1 copy
Tajnosti pařížské 1 copy
WANDERING JEW 1845? 1 copy
Misterele Parisului vol. 1 1 copy
Works of Eugene Sue: Pride 1 copy
The Wandering Jew's Sentence 1 copy
Works Of Eugene Sue - In Twenty Volumes (Mysteries of Paris 6 volumes, Arthur 2 volumes, Pride 2 volumes, Envy, Luxury… (1900) 1 copy
LOS MISTERIOS DE PARIS V IV 1 copy
Les Vampires 1 copy
LOS MISTERIOS DE PARIS V V 1 copy
Le Morne-au-Diable 1 copy
Paiata Vol.2 1 copy
Les Enfants de l'Amour 1 copy
Żyd wieczny tułacz. T. 1-2 1 copy
Nowele 1 copy
a buena-dicha 1 copy
Paiata 1 copy
Associated Works
Great Tales of Terror from Europe and America: Gothic Stories of Horror and Romance 1765-1840 (1972) — Contributor — 70 copies
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- Canonical name
- Sue, Eugène
- Legal name
- Sue, Marie-Joseph
- Other names
- Sue, Eugene
- Birthdate
- 1804-01-26
- Date of death
- 1857-08-03
- Burial location
- Cimetière de Loverchy, Annecy, France
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- France
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Place of death
- Annecy, France
- Education
- Lycée Condorcet, Paris, France
- Occupations
- journalist
short-story writer
novelist
naval surgeon - Relationships
- Gudin, Théodore (Ami)
Beauharnais, Eugène de (Parrain - Organizations
- Département de la Seine, Député, 18 50 l 188 51)
Marine française (Chirurgien, 19 26 l 19 29)
Jockey Club, Paris (Adhérent, 1834) - Awards and honors
- Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (1839)
- Short biography
- Eugéne Sue, French novelist, was born in Paris on the 26th of January 1804. He was the son of a distinguished surgeon in Napoleon's army, and is said to have had the empress Josephine for godmother. Sue himself acted as surgeon both in the Spanish campaign undertaken by France in 1823 and at the battle of Navarino (1828). In 1829 his father's death put him in possession of a considerable fortune, and he settled in Paris. His naval experiences supplied much of the materials of his first novels, which were composed at the height of the romantic movement of 1830. He was strongly affected by the Socialist ideas of the day, and these prompted his most famous works: "Les Mystères de Paris" and "Le Juif errant", which were among the most popular specimens of the _roman-feuilleton_. He followed these up with some singular and not very edifying books: "Les Sept péchés capitaux," which contained stories to illustrate each sin, "Les Mystères du peuple," which was suppressed by the censor in 1857, and several others, all on a very large scale, though the number of volumes gives an exaggerated idea of their length. Some of his books, among them "Le Juif errant" and "Le Mystéres de Paris," were dramatized by himself, usually in collaboration with others. His period of greatest success and popularity coincided with that of Alexandre Dumas, with whom some writers have put him on an equality. Sue has neither Dumas's wide range of subject, nor, above all, his faculty of conducting the story by means of lively dialogue; he has, however, a command of terror which Dumas seldom or never attained. From the literary point of view his style is bad, and his construction prolix. After the revolution of 1848 he sat for Paris (the Seine) in the Assembly from April 1850, and was exiled in consequence of his protest against the _coup d'état_ of the 2nd of December 1851. This exile stimulated his literary production, but the works of his last days are on the whole much inferior to those of his middle period. Sue died at Annecy (Savoy) on the 3rd of August 1857.
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