EUGENESUE [JOSEPH MARIE] (1804-18J7), French novelist, was born in Paris on the 10th of January 1804.
Sue himself acted as surgeon both in the Spanish campaign undertaken by France in 1823 and at the battle of Navarino (1828).
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.
Sue was sponsored by Prince Eugène de Beauharnais and the empress Joséphine; he used the prince's name to form his famous pen name.
Sue's republican and socialist views are reflected in his best-known novels, Les Mystères de Paris (1842-43), set in the Paris slums, and Le Juif errant (1844-45), published in instalments for Le Constitutionnel in 1842-1843.
In the radical periodicals Sue was hailed as the chief rival of Alexandre Dumas, considered a royalist storyteller.
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