Frédéric Soulié

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

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).

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