title: Frédéric Soulié
text: # 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
  