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Monsieur Soulier
Best known as one of the physicians sent from Paris during the 1720 plague in Marseille, this early-18th-century writer is linked to a rare firsthand medical account of the crisis. Little seems to be firmly documented about the man himself, which gives his surviving work an extra sense of historical mystery.
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A Succinct Account of the Plague at Marseilles Its Symptoms and the Methods and Medicines Used for Curing It
by François Chicoyneau, Monsieur Soulier, active 1720-1721 Monsieur Verny
About the author
Monsieur Soulier appears in surviving records as one of the doctors connected with A Succinct Account of the Plague at Marseilles, a report on the great Marseille plague of 1720. Project Gutenberg’s edition identifies Soulier, alongside François Chicoyneau and Monsieur Verny, as one of the physicians sent from Paris to treat the sick and describe the outbreak.
That work stands out because it combines direct observation with practical medical advice, offering modern readers a close view of how physicians understood epidemic disease in the early 1700s. Rather than being remembered for a long list of books, Soulier is mainly known through this collaborative account and his role in a moment of extreme public danger.
Reliable biographical detail beyond that is hard to confirm from the sources I found. Even basic facts such as his full given name are not consistently available, so the safest picture is of a French physician active around 1720 whose reputation rests on a vivid and historically important plague narrative.