- Messieurs, je viens offrir à votre journal, un roman-feuilleton qui, je crois, lui conviendra parfaitement! ... il a pour titre Eloa, ou huit jours de bonheur intime..... la première partie formera dix ou douze volumes.... à la manière d'Eugène Sue!... - Pardon madame!... mais ceci me paraît effrayant! .... à ce compte-là vos huit jours dureront trois ans!

Item Information

Title:
- Messieurs, je viens offrir à votre journal, un roman-feuilleton qui, je crois, lui conviendra parfaitement! ... il a pour titre Eloa, ou huit jours de bonheur intime..... la première partie formera dix ou douze volumes.... à la manière d'Eugène Sue!... - Pardon madame!... mais ceci me paraît effrayant! .... à ce compte-là vos huit jours dureront trois ans!
Title (alt.):
Charivari. - Gentlemen, I am offering your paper a serialized novel that I believe will fit perfectly! The title is "Eloa, or eight days of intimate happiness". The first part consists of ten or twelve volumes, written in the manner of Eugène Sue! - Sorry Madame, but this is absolutely frightening! This way your eight days will last at least three years!
Description:
A woman is offering her novel to a newspaper as a serial publication. Marie-Joseph Eugène Sue was a writer, politician and Deputy. He also worked for the "Caricature" in 1831. In 1842/43 he published "Les Mystères de Paris" and in 1848/49 "Les Sept Péchés Capitaux". In 1844/45, he published "Le Juif Errant" in the "Constitutionnel".
Donor:
Trustman, Benjamin A., Trustman, Julia M.
Lithographer:
Daumier, Honoré, 1808-1879
Date:
1844
Format:
Drawings/Illustrations
Location:
Brandeis University Libraries
Collection (local):
Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman Collection of Honoré Daumier Lithographs
Subjects:
Newspapers
Novelists
Serials
France--History--Louis-Philip, 1830-1848
Women authors
Extent:
1 lithograph, b&w, 35.5 x 25.5 cm
Link to Item:
http://hdl.handle.net/10192/1572
Terms of Use:
Copyright restrictions may apply. For permission to copy or use this image, contact the Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections Department, Brandeis University Libraries. The following credit line must be included with each item used: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman Collection of Honoré Daumier Lithographs, Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections Department, Brandeis University.
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Place of origin:
Paris
Notes:
3rd state.
Published in: Le Charivari, February 13, 1844.
Notes (acquisition):
Donated by: Benjamin A. and Julia M. Trustman, 1959.
Identifier:
LD1226