Frédéric Soulié Explained

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).

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

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=Ubr35UeE-UQC&pg=PA347 The Cambridge Paperback Guide to Theatre
2. France Canh-Gruyer, Frédéric Soulié, Encyclopaedia Universalis. Accessed 13 January 2013.