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some other author of his choosing (""on the condition . . . that it he signed by
someone whose name would be, according to my calculations, a spm" t.o success").
Gabriel Pelin, Les Laide"rs dn bea" Paris (Paris, 1861), PI'. 98-99. [d6,4]
Fees. Victor Hugo receives 300,000 francs from Lacroix for Les Miserables, in
exchange for rights to the novel for twelve years. "It was the first time Victor
Hugo had received such a sum. 'In twenty-eight years of furious labor; Paul
Sou day has said, 'with an oeuvre of thirty-one volumes . .. , he had made a total
of about 553,000 francs . ... He never earned as much as Lamartine, Scribe, or
Dumas pere ... : Lamartine, in the years 1838 to 1851, made close to five million
francs, of wmch 600,000 were for the Histoire des Girondins." Edmond Benoit­
Levy, "Les Miserables " de Victor Hugo (paris, 1929), p. 108. Connection between
income and political aspiration. [d6a,l]
'When Eugene Sue, following upon . . . Les Mysteres de Londres , . .. conceived the project of writing Les Mysteres de Paris, he did not at all
propose to arouse the interest of the reader with a description of society's underworld.
He began by charact.erizing his novel as an histoirefantastique . ... It was
a newspaper article that decided his fut.ure. La Phalange praised the bcginning of
the novel and opened t.he aut.hor's eyes: 'M. Sue has just. set out on the most
penet.rating critique of society . ... Let us congratulate him for having recount.ed
... the fright.ful sufferings of the working class and the cruel indifference of society.'
The author of this article . .. received a visit from Sue; they talked-and that
is how the novel already underway was pointed in a new direction . ... Eugene Sue
convinced himself: he took part in the electoral hattIe and was elected . . .
(1848) . ... The t.endencies and the far-reaching effects of Sue's novels were such
that M. Alfred Nettement could see in them one of' the det.crmining causes of the
Revolution of 1848." Edmond Benoit-Levy, "Les Mi-se,.ables" de Victor Hugo
(Paris, 1929), Pl'. 18-19. [d6a,2]
A Saint-Simonian poem dedicated to Sue as the aut.hor of Les l'J1lysteres de Paris:
Savinien Lapointe, ··De Mon Echoppe" ,'J in Une Voix d'en bas
(Paris, 1844), 1'1'. 283-296. [d6a,3]
o(,Mter 1852, t.he defenders of t.he educator's art are much less numerous. The most
important is Maxime Du Camp." C. L. de Liefde, Le Saint-Sinwnisme dans la
poesiefranaise , p. 115. [d6a,4]
"Les lesuites, by _Michelet and Quinet, dates from 184,3. (Le luif errant appeared in 1844)." Charles Bl'Ull, Lie R01nan social en France
a." XIX' siilcle (Paris, 1910), 1'. 102. [d6a,5]
"'Le Constitutionnel going from 3,600 subscrihers to more than 20,000 . .. 128,074,
vot.es giving Eugene Sue an electoral mandate to become a deputy." Charles Brun,
Le Ranum socinl en France au XIX" siede (Paris, 1910), p. 105. [d6a)6]