Abbé Léonor Soulas d'Allainval

Abbé Léonor Soulas d’Allainval, aka Leonor Jean Christin Soulas of Allainval, was born in Chartres, France in the year 1700. Soulas D’Allainval was a playwright who wrote mostly comedies, though he received very little recognition in his lifetime. Only his first comedy, L’Embarras des richesses (The Embarrassment of Riches), was mildly successful, playing four times in Paris during his lifetime. Another of his plays, L’École des bourgeois (School of Bourgeois), brought him posthumous fame. The play debuted in 1728 but was not produced regularly until 1769. Some of Soulas D’Allainval’s other plays include Le Tour de Carnaval, La Fausse Comtesse, and L’Hiver. The playwright died at L’hôtel-Dieu de Paris in 1753.