Frédéric Soulié
Illustration — 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).
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Frédéric Soulié

Frédéric Soulié · Bibliothèque nationale de France, département Littérature et Art · Public domain
- Born
- 1800 · Foix.
- Died
- 1847 · Bièvres.
- Nationality
- France
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- novelist · journalist · playwright · writer · librarian · dramaturge · critic
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — 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).
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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).
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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
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
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