Timeline for What book of Eugène Sue's 'The Mysteries of the People' inspired M. Joly's 'Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli & Montesquieu', as claimed by U. Eco?

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Jul 31, 2022 at 20:37	history	edited	Quassnoi	CC BY-SA 4.0	added 43 characters in body
Jul 31, 2022 at 20:35	comment	added	Quassnoi		@Sven3B: you might be on to something. Apparently, he was Mr. Sue's secretary, and French editions of "The Mysteries of the People" list him as a "creator". In this work of his: babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/… he calls himself Continuateur des Mystères du Peuple, d'EUGÈNE SUE.
Jul 31, 2022 at 19:14	vote	accept	Sven3B
Jul 31, 2022 at 19:13	comment	added	Sven3B		That must be what Eco was citing. It's curious that he mis-identifies it as The Mysteries of the People, although the version linked says 'Suite des Mysteries du Peuple' as a subtitle, which I see translated as "Following the Mysteries of the People." Another wrinkle is that also on the title page it says "continuée par P. Vésinier," translated to "continued by P. Vésinier," which means the passages in question may not have been from Sue at all.
Jul 28, 2022 at 11:57	history	edited	Charo	CC BY-SA 4.0	edited body
Jul 28, 2022 at 11:08	comment	added	Quassnoi		@Charo: all French in this post is copy-pasted from digitized books and its interpretation is the one of machine translation services. If you see any typos, please feel free to correct them. Thanks!
Jul 28, 2022 at 9:54	comment	added	Charo		In the French text you have quoted, it's malheurs, not *malbeurs. I understand French and your interpretation is perfectly correct.
Jul 28, 2022 at 3:29	history	edited	Quassnoi	CC BY-SA 4.0	deleted 3 characters in body
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Jul 28, 2022 at 1:30	history	answered	Quassnoi	CC BY-SA 4.0