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JOSEPH

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• MARIE

MARIE]

See also:

• JOSEPHIN [JOSEPH MARIE] SOULARY (1815—1891)

SOULARY (1815—1891)  , French poet, son of a Lyons merchant of Genoese origin (Solari), was born on the 23rd of February 1815 . He entered a line regiment when he was sixteen, serving for five years . He was chef de bureau in the prefecture of the Rhone from 1845 to 1867, and in 1868 he became librarian to the Palais des arts in his native town . He died at Lyons on the 28th of March 1891 . His works include A travers champs (1837); Les Cinq cordes du loth (1838); Les Ephemeres (two series, 1846 and 1857); Sonnets humoristiques (1862); Les Figulines (1862); Pendant l'invasion (1871); Les Rimes ironiques (1877); Jeux divins (1882), and two comedies . His Uuvres 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." See also Paul Marieton, Soulary et la Ple'iade lyonnaise (1884) .