Frédéric Soulié



Frédéric Soulié (23 December 1800 – 23 September 1847) was a French popular novelist and playwright. 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).

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