Joséphin Soulary

Joséphin (Joseph Marie) Soulary (23 February 1815 - 28 March 1891), French poet, son of a Lyon merchant of Genoese origin (Solari).

He was born in Lyon and entered a line regiment when he was sixteen, serving for five years,[1] during which he published his first poems.

Some small lyrical works of a patriotic nature were published under the pseudonym "S. Grenadier" in the journal L'Indicateur de Bordeaux.

[citation needed] He was Chef de Bureau in the prefecture of the Rhône from 1845 to 1867, and in 1868 he became librarian to the Palais des Arts in his native town.

[1] He became a member of the Parnassiens, with Alphonse Lemerre including some of Soulary's poems in the 1871 and 1876 volumes of the collection Le Parnasse contemporain.