Grand tours: Pigeons in the roof, ducks under the bed Adventures in literature. This week, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint- Pierre stays in eccentric lodgings on Mauritius

The Independent on Sunday | November 17, 2002| | Copyright

The 18th-century novelist Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre spent more than two years in the French colony of Ile de France (now Mauritius) writing "Paul et Virginie". This story of adolescent love set in the Indian Ocean was an instant success, but his travelogue, "Voyage a L'Ile de France", among the earliest examples of a walking guide, has endured as one of the era's most explicit accounts of colonial society. Here, Saint-Pierre depicts the realities of plantation life and slavery with as much indignation as he has appreciation of Mauritius's beauty.

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