In the first half of the nineteenth century, Eugène Sue immortalizes the legend of the wandering Jew with the creation of this long written between 1844 and 1845 novel, turning it into a melodramatic story, which was a great success for Le Constitutionel, the newspaper that published deliveries.
The Wandering Jew recounts episodes of a French family of ancient lineage and religion of that Protestant-descendants Wandering Jew, condemned by Christ to wander indefinitely while transmitting the disease of cholera that was exiled by various parts of the world. One hundred and fifty years later only seven descendants, only heirs of a substantial legacy to receive, each must have a bronze medal with a pair of inscriptions indicating the date and place where these seven people should meet . The Society of Jesus, you want to seize this heritage, use different media, subtle and violent, to try to eliminate all legitimate heirs (except the mission) and stop are in Paris on the date indicated.