Joséphin Soulary, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Joséphin Soulary

French poet

Date of Birth: 23-Feb-1815

Place of Birth: Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

Date of Death: 28-Mar-1891

Profession: writer, poet

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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, 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 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 including some of Soulary's poems in the 1871 and 1876 volumes of the collection Le Parnasse contemporain.
Soulary died at Lyon.