Frédéric Soulié
# 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).

## 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
