JACQUES-HENRI BERNARDIN DE SAINT-PIERRE

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'Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre' (January 19, 1737 – January 21, 1814) 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 the predecessor of the Académie Française.
He was born in Le Havre. He died in Éragny, Val-d'Oise.
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."

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