Frédéric Soulié

Frédéric Soulié (23 December 1800 – 23 September 1847) was a French popular novelist and playwright.[1] He wrote over forty sensation novels like Mémoires du diable (1837-8).

Frédéric Soulié

Life

Frédéric Soulié was born in Foix, the son of a philosopher professor. He gained a law degree before going to Paris to pursue a literary life. Though his early historical dramas were unsuccessful, he gained more attention with the novel Les deux cadavres (1832).[2]

Works

Plays
  • Roméo et Juliette, 1828.
  • Christine à Fontainebleau, 1829.
  • Clotilde, 1832.
  • Diane de Chivri, 1839
  • Le fils de la folle
  • Le Proscrit, 1840
  • La Closerie des Genêts, 1846.

Novels
  • Les deux cadavres [The two corpses], 1832.
  • Le vicomte de Béziers, 1834.
  • Le comte de Toulouse, 1835.
  • Les mémoires du diable [Memoirs of the devil], 1837-8. (translated into English by Black Coat Press in 2 volumes)
  • Les prétendus [The pretenders], 1842.
  • La lionne [The lion], 1846
  • La comtesse de Monrion, 1847
  • Confession générale
  • Eulalie Pons
  • La Comtesse de Mourion
  • Saturnin Fichet

References
  1. The Cambridge Paperback Guide to Theatre, p. 347 (1996)
  2. France Canh-Gruyer, Frédéric Soulié, Encyclopaedia Universalis. Accessed 13 January 2013.
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