Sue, Eugène (Joseph Marie) (1804–1857)

French novelist. He specialized in the portrayal of the urban squalor produced by industrialization. His novel Les Mystères de Paris/The Mysteries of Paris 1842 revealed the sordid side of of the French capital, and was to influence Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. Le Juif errant/The Wandering Jew 1844–45 was an attack on the Jesuits.

Sue was a socialist, and in 1848, with the establishment of the Second Republic, was elected as a representative of the national assembly. On the accession of Emperor Napoleon III in 1853, however, he was forced into exile.