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Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
writer and botanist from France (1737-1814)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 19 January 1737
- Died
- 21 January 1814
- Place of birth
- Le Havre
- Place of death
- Éragny-sur-Oise
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Jacques-Henri
- Family name
- Bernardin, de Saint-Pierre
- Field of work
- botany, travel literature
- Position held
- seat 27 of the Académie française, director of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
- Citizenship
- France
- Native language
- French
- depicted by
- Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and his family, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and his family, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Portrait of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
- described by source
- Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Desktop Encyclopedic Dictionary, Library of the World's Best Literature, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The New Student's Reference Work
- educated at
- University of Caen Normandy, École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Lycée Pierre-Corneille
- languages spoken, written or signed
- French
- last words
- Je sens que je quitte la terre et non la vie.
- member of
- Académie Française
- name in native language
- Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
- notable work
- Paul et Virginie
- place of burial
- Père Lachaise Cemetery
- student of
- Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
- topic's main category
- Category:Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
- writing language
- French
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