Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
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| Born | 19 January 1737 Le Havre, France |
| Died | 21 January 1814 Éragny, Val-d'Oise, France |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | French |
| Period | 18th century |
| Genres | Novel, travel narrative |
| Notable work(s) | Paul et Virginie |
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (also called Bernardin de St. Pierre) (19 January 1737 Le Havre – 21 January 1814 Éragny, Val-d'Oise) was a French writer and botanist. He is best known for his 1787 novel Paul et Virginie. In 1795 he was elected to the Institut de France, and in 1803 to the Académie Française.
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From Antoine-Louis Barye: Sculptor of Romantic Realism by Glenn F. Benge, p. 8:
- "Bayre's predators devouring their living prey indulge the emotions in a Romantic way of course, but they also embody a romantically moralizing point of view like those held by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Mme de Staël, and Victor Hugo. The Oeuvres complètes of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre appeared in Paris in 1834 and was surely known to Bayre, 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 archromantic Mme de Staël. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre maintained that a carnivorous animal in devouring its prey alive committed a sin against the laws of its own nature."
He was a vegetarian advocate and he also practiced what he preached.[1][2]
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- Voyage à l’Île de France, à l’île Bourbon et au cap de Bonne-Espérance (1773)
- L’Arcadie (1781)
- Études de la nature (1784)
- Paul et Virginie (1788)
- La Chaumière indienne (1790)
- Le Café de Surate (1790)
- Les Vœux d’un solitaire (1790)
- De la nature de la morale (1798)
- Voyage en Silésie (1807)
- La Mort de Socrate (1808)
- Harmonies de la nature (1815)
[edit] See also
Society of the Friends of Truth
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Works by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
- International Vegetarian Union,"The Ethics of Diet": Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
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| Preceded by Antoine-Louis Séguier |
Seat 27 Académie française 1803–1814 |
Succeeded by Étienne Aignan |
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