WRITER

Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

1737 - 1814

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Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (pronounced [ʒak ɑ̃ʁi bɛʁnaʁdɛ̃ də sɛ̃ pjɛʁ]; also called Bernardin de St. Pierre) (19 January 1737, in Le Havre – 21 January 1814, in Éragny, Val-d'Oise) was a French writer and botanist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre has received more than 90,805 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre is the 960th most popular writer (down from 952nd in 2019), the 1,095th most popular biography from France (up from 1,114th in 2019) and the 144th most popular French Writer.

Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre is most famous for his novel Paul et Virginie, which tells the story of two young French aristocrats who are shipwrecked on a tropical island.

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  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.77

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  • 2.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Oeuvres complètes de Jacques-Henri-Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
1818
Études de la nature
1786
Paul et Virginie
1800
Studies of nature
1796
Paul and Virginia
1983

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre ranks 960 out of 7,302. Before him are Sin Saimdang, Alfred Kubin, George Steiner, Panait Istrati, Al-Mutanabbi, and Ivan Gundulić. After him are Sulpicius Severus, Chiara Lubich, Percy Fawcett, Victorien Sardou, B. Traven, and Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1737, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre ranks 7. Before him are Luigi Galvani, Johann Friedrich Struensee, Edward Gibbon, Thomas Paine, Michael Haydn, and Marie-Louise O'Murphy. After him are Louise of France, Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov, Josef Mysliveček, Tokugawa Ieharu, and Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria. Among people deceased in 1814, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre ranks 8. Before him are Marquis de Sade, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, Maria Carolina of Austria, Benjamin Thompson, and Marie-Louise O'Murphy. After him are Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne, Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, Frederick Christian II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, Arthur Phillip, and Guillaume-Antoine Olivier.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre ranks 1,095 out of 6,770. Before him are Étienne-Jules Marey (1830), George Steiner (1929), Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736), Jean de Dunois (1402), André-Jacques Garnerin (1769), and Claude Joseph Vernet (1714). After him are Charles Trenet (1913), Odo the Great (650), Lucien Tesnière (1893), Victorien Sardou (1831), Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1698), and Heinrich Kramer (1430).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre ranks 144. Before him are Jacques Clément (1567), Jean de La Bruyère (1645), Pierre Larousse (1817), Alexandra David-Néel (1868), Johannes Tauler (1300), and George Steiner (1929). After him are Victorien Sardou (1831), Heinrich Kramer (1430), Jean de Joinville (1224), Pierre-Jean de Béranger (1780), Nicolas Chamfort (1741), and Bertran de Born (1140).

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