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)
