biography
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Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques-Henri
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pronunciation:
[bairnah(r)dĩ duh s&itild
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| male
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| lived:
| (1737–1814)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Le Havre, NW France. His army service as an engineer on the island of Mauritius provided him with material for his first work, Voyage a L'Ile de France (1773). He went on to gain popular success with his novel Paul et Virginie (1787), a pastoral of innocent love destroyed when civilization interferes. In the later La Chaumière indienne (1790), a traveller finds wisdom in the cottage of an Indian outcast. Evident in his work is the influence of his friend, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. |
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