Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre was born in Le Havre on 19 January 1737. Trained at the École des ponts et chaussées, he became an engineer, travelled in Europe, notably in Russia, then left in 1768 for what is now Mauritius, from where he brought back a travel narrative published in 1773. Back in Paris, he became close to Rousseau, whose philosophy of nature he shared. Intendant of the Jardin des plantes under the Revolution, elected to the Académie française in 1803, he died in Éragny on 21 January 1814.

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