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A street in Paris is named for Eugene Sue, in the [[18eme arrondissement, Paris|18th Arrondissement]]: Rue Eugene Sue is located near the [[Poissonnière (Paris Metro)|Poissonnière]] [[Paris Métro|Metro]] station, and is not far from [[Montmartre]] and the [[Basilica of the Sacré Coeur]]. |
A street in Paris is named for Eugene Sue, in the [[18eme arrondissement, Paris|18th Arrondissement]]: Rue Eugene Sue is located near the [[Poissonnière (Paris Metro)|Poissonnière]] [[Paris Métro|Metro]] station, and is not far from [[Montmartre]] and the [[Basilica of the Sacré Coeur]]. |
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A street in [[Mexico City]], Calle Eugenio Sue, in the [[Polanco]] neighborhood, is also named for Sue. |
A street in [[Mexico City]], Calle Eugenio Sue, in the [[Polanco, Mexico City|Polanco]] neighborhood, is also named for Sue. |
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== Overview == |
== Overview == |
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- "Marie Sue" redirects here. For the term in fan fiction, see Mary Sue.
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Joseph Marie Eugène Sue (French pronunciation: [øʒɛn sy] (20 January 1804 – 3 August 1857) was a French novelist.
He was born in Paris, the son of a distinguished surgeon in Napoleon's army, and is said to have had the Empress Joséphine 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.
A street in Paris is named for Eugene Sue, in the 18th Arrondissement: Rue Eugene Sue is located near the Poissonnière Metro station, and is not far from Montmartre and the Basilica of the Sacré Coeur.
A street in Mexico City, Calle Eugenio Sue, in the Polanco neighborhood, is also named for Sue.
Overview
His naval experiences supplied much of the materials of his first novels, Kernock le pirate (1830), Atar-Gull (1831), La Salamandre (2 vols., 1832), La Coucaratcha (4 vols., 1832–1834), and others, which were composed at the height of the Romantic movement of 1830. In the quasi-historical style he wrote Jean Cavalier, ou Les Fanatiques des Cevennes (4 vols., 1840) and Lautréaumont (2 vols., 1837). His Mathilde (1841) contains the first known expression of the popular proverb "La vengeance se mange très-bien froide", lately expressed in English as "Revenge is a dish best served cold".[1]
He was strongly affected by the Socialist ideas of the day, and these prompted his most famous works, the "anti-Catholic" novels: Les Mystères de Paris (published in Journal des débats from 19 June 1842 until 15 October 1843) and Le Juif errant (tr. "The Wandering Jew") (10 vols., 1844–1845), which were among the most popular specimens of the serial novel.[2]
He followed these up with some singular though not very edifying books: Les Sept pêchés capitaux (16 vols., 1847–1849), which contained stories to illustrate each of the Seven Deadly Sins, Les Mystères du peuple (1849–1856), 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 the Mystères de Paris, were dramatized by himself, usually in collaboration with others. Les Mystères was later plagiarized by Maurice Joly in The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu, which in turn was plagiarized by the creators of the infamous antisemitic forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.[3] It is rumoured that Sue had a copy of the novel bound in the very skin of a woman who loved him.
His period of greatest success and popularity coincided with that of Alexandre Dumas, père, with whom he has been compared.
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 2 December 1851. This exile stimulated his literary production. Sue died at Annecy (Savoy) in 1857.
References
- ^ Language Log. Penn University
- ^ Catholicism and American Freedom,, John McGreevy Norton and Co., New York 2003, pp. 22-23.
- ^ Eco, Umberto (1994). "Fictional Protocols". Six Walks in the Fictional Woods. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. 135. ISBN 0-674-81050-3.; Sue is a character in Eco's 2010 novel The Prague Cemetery.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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External links
- Wandering Jew and Wandering Jewess dramatic screenplay adaptations by Robert Douglas Manning ISBN 978-1-895507-03-4
- Works by Eugène Sue at Internet Archive (scanned books original editions color illustrated)
- Works by Eugène Sue at Project Gutenberg (plain text, HTML & various formats)
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