FTP, identify this French novelist of The Mysteries of Paris.
When a mistress of this novelist died, she willed him her skin with instructions that he should bind a book with it, which he did. After serving as a surgeon in Spain and at Navarino Bay, he first wrote sea stories like 1831's Plik et Plok. One of the first members of the French Jockey Club, his books feature realistic depictions of the urban poor, often with implausible and seamy plots, as seen in Mathilde and The Wandering Jew. FTP, identify this French novelist of The Mysteries of Paris.
When a mistress of this novelist died, she willed him her skin with instructions that he should bind a book with it, which he did.
Marie Joseph "Eugene" Sue