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Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre , 1737-1814, French naturalist and author. He was a friend of Rousseau, by whom he was strongly influenced. His chief work, Études de la nature (1784), sought to prove the existence of God from the wonders of nature; it is rich in descriptive passages, and it added specific color terms and plant names to the French language. A section of this was the sentimental prose idyll Paul et Virginie (1788), which attained immense vogue and influenced the French romanticists.

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Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques-Henri (1737–1814), French natural philosopher and novelist, a friend and follower of Rousseau of whom he left an account in La Vie et les ouvrages de Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1820). He is author of the immensely influential and much translated Paul et Virginie (1788), a pastoral romance set on a tropical island, describing the idyllic childhood and upbringing of two French children. It ends tragically: Virginie drowns and Paul dies of grief. Saint-Pierre was a follower of Rousseau and his works offer a French version of primitivism.
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Saint-Pierre, Jacques-Henri Bernardin, see Bernardin de Saint-Pierre.

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