Frédéric Soulié

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).

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).