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Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre was a French writer and botanist. He is best known for his 1788 novel, Paul et Virginie, a very popular 18th-century classic of French literature.
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culture · French writer and botanist (1737–1814) · geographical engineer (military cartographer) · novelist · botanist · writer · engineer · also Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Bernardin, Henri Bernardin de St. Pierre, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Saint-Pierre
Born 19 January 1737 · Died 21 January 1814 · Q361976
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Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
And was surely known to Barye, for the author was the former director of the zoo in the Jardin des Plantes and one of the "masters of genuine poetry" for the arch-romantic Mme de Staël
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Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Died 1814-01-21.
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Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
“Original: la charité de l'Evangile doit s'étendre à toutes les religions et l'hospitalité française à tous les peuples.”
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Was elected a member of the Académie française
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Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Career landmark: seat 27 of the Académie française (1803–1814).
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Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
When he was sixty-three, another young girl, Desirée Pelleport
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Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Career landmark: director of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (1792–1793).
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Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Studied at École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (1758–1760).
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Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Born 1737-01-19.
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