Eugène SUE – Autograph manuscript – Fragment from “The Mysteries of Paris”.
"When I saw that I wouldn't be shot, my first impulse was to jump on my chatterer and strangle him. You understand that, Master..."
1.400€
"When I saw that I wouldn't be shot, my first impulse was to jump on my chatterer and strangle him. You understand that, Master..."
1.400€
Eugène SUE (1804.1857)
Autograph manuscript – Fragment from The Mysteries of Paris.
One folio page on lined and paginated paper, 163 (bis)
Frayed edges. Slnd
Rare handwritten page from Sue's masterpiece, extensively corrected and corresponding to a passage from chapter IV of the work entitled "The Chourineur".
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“Finally, I saved the old woman. My prison rat wriggled so much with all four paws and tongue that he got my sentence changed […] I got fifteen years in the pasture. Thunder… When I saw that I wouldn’t be shot, my first impulse was to jump on my chatterbox and strangle him. You understand that, Master…”
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Published in Le Journal des débats, in serial form, between June 1842 and October 1843, Les Mystères de Paris remains one of the greatest literary successes of the 19th century.