Joséphin (Joseph Marie) Soulary (23 February 1815 - 28 March 1891), French poet, son of a

Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

merchant of Genoese origin (Solari). He was born in Lyon and entered a line regiment when he was sixteen, serving for five years, 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''. He was Chef de Bureau in the prefecture of the

Rhône The Rhône ( , ; Occitan language, Occitan: ''Ròse''; Franco-Provençal, Arpitan: ''Rôno'') is a major river in France and Switzerland, rising in the Alps and flowing west and south through Lake Geneva and Southeastern France before dischargi ...

from 1845 to 1867, and in 1868 he became librarian to the Palais des Arts in his native town. He became a member of the Parnassiens, with

Alphonse Lemerre Alphonse Lemerre (; Canisy, Normandy, France, 1838 – Paris, France, 1912) was a 19th-century French editor and publisher, known especially for having been the first to publish many of the Parnassian poets. Lemerre's imprints popularized the ...

including some of Soulary's poems in the 1871 and 1876 volumes of the collection ''

Le Parnasse contemporain Le Parnasse contemporain (, "The Contemporary Parnassus", e.g., the contemporary poetry scene) is composed of three volumes of poetry collections, published in 1866, 1871 and 1876 by the editor Alphonse Lemerre. The volumes included one hundred ...

''. Soulary died at Lyon.

Works

Lyrical *''À travers champs'' (1838) *''Les Cinq cordes du luth'' (1838) *''Le Chemin de fer'' (1839) *''Les Ephémères'' (two series, 1846 and 1857) *''Sonnets humoristiques'' (1862) *''Les Figulines'' (1862) *''Les Diables bleus'' (1870) *''Pendant l'invasion'' (1871) *''La Chasse aux mouches d'or'' (1876) *''Les Rimes ironiques'' (1877) *''Jeux divins'' (1882) Plays *''Un Grand homme qu'on attend'' (1879) *''Promenade autour d'un tiroir'' (1886) His ''Œuvres poetiques'' were collected in three volumes (1872–1883). His ''Sonnets humoristiques'' attracted great attention, and charmed their readers by the mixture of gaiety and tragedy. His mastery over the technical difficulties of his art, especially in the sonnet, won him the title of the " Benvenuto of rhyme."

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Soulary 1815 births 1891 deaths French male poets 19th-century French poets 19th-century French male writers French people of Italian descent Writers from Lyon

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