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M. Eugene Sue, 1850. Portrait of French writer and '...Socialist candidate for the department of the Seine' Eugène Sue, '...a pleasant, jovial-looking, dark-complexioned man, seemingly of about forty- six years of age, although in reality forty-nine; rather corpulent; dresses with care, and is altogether prepossessing...The works of Eugene Sue had long ago marked his place amongst the destructive spirits of this age, for his imagination gave a febrile attraction to the brutal excesses of his sensual pen, and his attacks had been incessantly directed against the principles of religion, morality, authority, and property'. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.