Sophie Hus also known under her the name Soulier, née Buguet (Toulon,
1758 - died after 1831, Saint Petersbourg, Russia), was a French stage
actress. She was active in the French Theater of Gustav III in Sweden
(1784â€"87), and the French theater in Russia (1787â€"99).Sophie Hus
was the natural daughter of Maria Buguet Soulier and Josef Buguet
Soulier, a cellist at the theater of Nimes, and half sister of the
musician Jean-Pierre Soulier. In 1781, she married Eugène Hus, but
the couple separated in 1783.Sophie Hus is first noted to have
performed as an actress in Lyon 1772-73. In 1784, she was engaged to
perform at the French theater in Stockholm by Jacques Marie Boutet de
Monvel. She made a great success in Sweden, where she was regarded to
be the perhaps greatest actress of the French theater, and it was said
that many French actresses in Stockholm where compared to Hus long
after her departure. Sophie Hus was described as foremost a
tragedienne, recommended for her intense impression. She acted in
tragedies such as Tancréde et Adelaide de Guesclin by Voltaire, and
romantic comedies by Marivaux, Sedaine and Beaumarchais.During her
tenure in Stockholm, Sophie Hus had a relationship with the Russian
ambassador to Sweden, Arkady Morkov. When he was recalled in 1786, she
wished to accompany him to Russia, but was prevented from doing so
because she had not yet fulfilled her term at the French theater in
Sweden stipulated in her contract. In July 1786, Morkov arranged for
Hus to be smuggled out from her contract in Sweden over the border by
his secretary, dressed in male clothing. Hus and her maid was
apprehended in Nyköping on their way out of the country and Hus was
arrested for intention of breaking her contract with the theater. She
demanded to be freed from her contract, and was after negotiations
allowed to resign after the 1786-87 season. Her attempted escape
attracted much attention, and was the subject of the Swedish comedy
play Le Desertice eller Rymmerskan ('The deserter or the Ranaway'),
which was published anonymously in 1786 and attributed to Carl Israel
Hallman or Gustav III, in which Sophie Hus was called "M.me
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