Sué Family, physicians and surgeons, France, 18th-19th centuries

The material held here was formerly held in several separate files in the Western Manuscripts Department's Autograph Letters Sequence.

1764-1822

18 items

Purchased from: Charavay, Paris, December 1927 (acc.67371), October 1928 / April 1929 (acc.63700), November 1932 (acc.65657); an unknown vendor, Paris, April 1930 (acc.67391); Desgranges, Paris, October 1930 (acc.63923), January 1934 (acc.66597); probably Desgranges or Charavay, Paris, circa October 1933 (acc.66365).

Several generations of the Sué family practised as medical men in Paris. The brothers Jean Sué (1699-1762) and Jean-Joseph Sué (1710-1792) (the latter given the soubriquet "de la Charité") were both surgeons and each had a son who followed the same career: respectively, Pierre Sué (1739-1816) and Jean-Joseph Sué the younger (1760-1830). The novelist Eugéne Sué, who initially trained as a medical man, was the son of Jean-Joseph Sué the younger.

Database description transcribed from Richard Aspin and Christopher Hilton's typescript supplement to S.A.J Moorat's Catalogue of Western Manuscripts.