Frédéric Soulié
Frédéric Soulié was a French popular novelist and playwright. He wrote over forty sensation novels like Les Mémoires du diable.
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.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 , 1832.
- Le vicomte de Béziers, 1834.
- Le comte de Toulouse, 1835.
- Les mémoires du diable , 1837-8.
- Les prétendus , 1842.
- La lionne , 1846
- La comtesse de Monrion, 1847
- Confession générale
- Eulalie Pons
- La Comtesse de Mourion
- ''Saturnin Fichet''