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SUE, EUGENE [JosEPH MARIE] (1804—1857)

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SUE, See also:EUGENE [See also:JosEPH See also:MARIE] (1804—1857) , See also:French novelist, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 20th of See also:January 1804. He was the son of a distinguished surgeon in See also:Napoleon's See also:army, and is said to have had the empress See also:Josephine for godmother. Sue himself acted as surgeon both in the See also:Spanish See also:campaign undertaken by See also:France in 1823 and at the See also:battle of See also:Navarino (1828). In 1829 his See also:father's See also:death put him in See also:possession of a considerable See also:fortune, and he settled in Paris. His See also:naval experiences supplied much of the materials of his first novels, Kernock le pirate (1830), Atar-See also:Gull (1831), La Salamandre (2 vols., 1832), La Coucaratcha (4 vols., 1832—1834), and others, which were composed at the height of the romantic See also:movement of 1830. In the quasi-See also:historical See also:style he wrote See also:Jean See also:Cavalier, ou See also:Les Fanatiques See also:des See also:Cevennes (4 vols., 1840) and Latreaumont (2 vols., 1837). He was strongly affected by the Socialist ideas of the See also:day, and these prompted his most famous See also:works: Les Mysteres de Paris (10 vols., 1842—1843) and Le Juif errant (ro vols., 1844—1845), which were among the most popular specimens of the See also:roman-See also:feuilleton. He followed these up with some singular and not very edifying books: Les See also:Sept peates capitaux (16 vols., 1847—1849), which contained stories to illustrate each See also:sin, Les Mysteres du peuple (1849—1856), which was suppressed by the See also:censor in 1857, and several others, all on a very large See also:scale, though the number of volumes gives an exaggerated See also:idea of their length. Some of his books, among them the Juif errant and the Mysteres de Paris, were dramatized by himself, usually in collaboration with others. His See also:period of greatest success and popularity coincided with that of See also:Alexandre See also:Dumas, with whom some writers have put him on an equality. Sue has neither Dumas's wide range of subject, nor, above all, his See also:faculty of conducting the See also:story by means of lively See also:dialogue; he has, however, a command of terror which Dumas seldom or never attained. From the See also:literary point of view his style is See also:bad, and his construction prolix.

After the revolution of 1848 he sat for Paris (the See also:

Seine) in the See also:Assembly from See also:April 1850, and was exiled in consequence of his protest against the coup d'etat of the 2nd of See also:December 1851. This See also:exile stimulated his literary See also:production, but the works of his last days are on the whole much inferior to those of his See also:middle period. Sue died at See also:Annecy (See also:Savoy) on the 3rd of See also:August 1857.

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