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Monsieur Soulier

Best known as one of the physicians sent from Paris during the 1720 plague in Marseilles, this little-known medical writer helped produce a firsthand account of the epidemic. His surviving reputation rests almost entirely on that urgent, practical work.

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A Succinct Account of the Plague at Marseilles

A Succinct Account of the Plague at Marseilles

by François Chicoyneau, Monsieur Soulier, active 1720-1721 Monsieur Verny

About the author

Project Gutenberg’s catalog for A Succinct Account of the Plague at Marseilles lists “Soulier, Monsieur” as one of the book’s authors alongside François Chicoyneau and Monsieur Verny. The same record describes the work as an early-18th-century historical and medical account of the plague outbreak in Marseilles.

From that record, the clearest picture is that Soulier was involved in documenting symptoms, treatments, and observations during the epidemic, as part of a group of physicians sent from Paris. Beyond his role in that book, reliable biographical details are scarce in the sources I could confirm during this search.

That makes him one of those authors remembered mainly through a single surviving text rather than a well-documented life story. For readers today, his importance lies in helping preserve a direct medical view of one of France’s most devastating public health crises.