Our Ancestors the Gauls. Eugène Sue and the Mysteries of the French People

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Published 01-02-2022
Raquel Sánchez

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The popular novel played a very important role in the creation of political and social imaginaries in the nineteenth century, being Eugène Sue's Les mystères du peuple one of the best examples of it. Ideologically close to social romanticism, the novel proposes, on one hand, a nationalist interpretation of the French past that differs from that offered by the liberal historiography. On the other hand, it carries out an analysis of social reality in which the conflict between classes is the explanatory key of history. Sue's ideas were projected in the republican discourse of the following decades, stripped of the socialist romanticism defended by its author.

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