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Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de, 1737-1814. Paul et Virginie

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Personal name headingSaint-Pierre, Bernardin de, 1737-1814. Paul et Virginie
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Form of workNovels
Juvenile literature
Beginning date1788
Found inSaint-Pierre, Bernardin de. Paul and Virginia, 1795: title page (translated from the French of Bernardin Saint-Pierre by Helen Maria Williams)
Wikipedia, November 20, 2020: Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (also called Bernardin de St. Pierre) was a French writer and botanist. He is best known for his 1788 novel Paul et Virginie, now largely forgotten, but in the 19th century a very popular children's book)
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Wikipedia, November 20, 2020: Paul et Virginie (Paul et Virginie (or Paul and Virginia) is a novel by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, first published in 1788. The novel's title characters are friends since birth who fall in love. The story is set on the island of Mauritius under French rule; Written on the eve of the French Revolution ... it records the fate of a child of nature corrupted by the artificial sentimentality of the French upper classes in the late eighteenth century. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre lived on the island for a time and based part of the novel on a shipwreck he witnessed there)
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