Frédéric Thomas (playwright)

Winner of the Académie des jeux floraux, he collaborated with the Revue du Midi as well as political newspapers.

A critic of the July Monarchy, he found himself in criminal court for press offenses.

He was president of the société des gens de lettres from 1868 to 1870.

On 6 September 1870 he was appointed prefect of the Tarn department, then general counsel of Castres in 1871.

From 1881 to 1884, he was MP of Tarn sitting with the left supporting opportunistic governments.