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After returning from this trip he was educated as an engineer at the École des Ponts ParisTech. In 1768 he traveled to Mauritius and studied plants. Together they studied the plants in and around Paris.
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First published in 1788, this is the classic of naive love that inspired the film The Blue Lagoon. Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's only novel is a classic of naïve love. First published in 1788 to wide acclaim, it subsequently appeared in hundreds of editions throughout the world and influenced a generation of French writers, from George Sand and Lamartine to Balzac and Flaubert. In modern times it has inspired major musicals, artworks, a hit song by Celine Dion, and even a chain of luxury hotels on Mauritius. Bernardin was inspired by his friend Rousseau to tell the story of two children who grow up entirely according to nature's laws on an idyllic island free from the corrupting influence of the world. They reach adolescence and fall in love, but tragedy strikes and both die untimely deaths. A key text in the development of the novel, this is a must for anyone interested in the history of European literature.
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Botanist engineer novelist writer
After returning from this trip he was educated as an engineer at the École des Ponts ParisTech. In 1768 he traveled to Mauritius and studied plants. Together they studied the plants in and around Paris.
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 Then he joined the French Army and was involved in the Seven Years" War against Prussia and England. In 1771 he became friendly with and a pupil of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Saint-Pierre was an avid advocate and practitioner of vegetarianism, and although he was a devout Christian was also heavily influenced by Enlightenment-era intellectuals like Voltaire and his mentor Rousseau.
The Oeuvres complètes of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre appeared in Paris in 1834 and was surely known to Barye, 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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"Barye"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.
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In 1795 he was elected to the Institut de France, in 1797 manager of the Botanical Gardens and in 1803 member of the Académie française.