Eugène SUE – Autograph manuscript – Fragment of the “Mystères de Paris”.

Eugene SUE (1804.1857)

Autograph manuscript – Fragment of 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 "Le Chourineur".

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“Finally I save the old woman. My prison rat wriggled with all four legs and tongue so much that he changed my sentence […] I got fifteen years of meadow. Thunder… When I saw that I would not be shot, my first impulse was to jump on my chatterbox to strangle him. You understand that, my 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 as one of the greatest literary successes of the 19th century.