Sophie Hus

Sophie Hus also known under her the name Soulier, née Buguet (1758 in Toulon – after 1831, in Saint Petersburg, Russia), was a French stage actress.

She acted in tragedies such as Tancréde et Adelaide de Guesclin by Voltaire, and romantic comedies by Marivaux, Sedaine and Beaumarchais.

When he was recalled in 1786, she wished to accompany him to Russia, but was prevented from doing so because she had not yet fulfilled her term at the French theater in Sweden stipulated in her contract.

In July 1786, Morkov arranged for Hus to be smuggled out from her contract in Sweden over the border by his secretary, dressed in male clothing.

Her attempted escape attracted much attention, and was the subject of the Swedish comedy play Le Desertice eller Rymmerskan ('The deserter or the Ranaway'), which was published anonymously in 1786 and attributed to Carl Israel Hallman or Gustav III, in which Sophie Hus was called "M.me Superlative".