Jacques Bernardin Henri de Saint-Pierre, dit abusivement Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, n\u00e9 le 19 janvier 1737 au Havre, de Nicolas Saint-Pierre et Catherine Godebout, et mort le 21 janvier 1814 \u00e0 \u00c9ragny, est un \u00e9crivain et botaniste fran\u00e7ais. Apr\u00e8s la publication des \u00c9tudes (3 vol., 1784), l\u2019auteur, inconnu, rebut\u00e9 et indigent la veille, passe en quelques jours \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9tat de grand homme et de favori de l\u2019opinion. Tout ce qui sort de sa plume est assur\u00e9 du succ\u00e8s ; des pages comme celles de Paul et Virginie (1788) ne rencontrent pas, \u00e0 leurs d\u00e9buts, l\u2019accueil esp\u00e9r\u00e9 et, sans l\u2019intervention du peintre Vernet, il les aurait certainement d\u00e9truites. Paul et Virginie est un xemple paradigmatique du roman de la fin du XVIIIe si\u00e8cle, il connut un immense succ\u00e8s qui d\u00e9passa les fronti\u00e8res. Paul et Virginie d\u00e9crit l’histoire de deux enfants vivant sur l’\u00eele de France (d\u00e9sormais \u00cele Maurice). Issus de deux familles diff\u00e9rentes, Paul et Virginie sont \u00e9lev\u00e9s en commun comme fr\u00e8re et s\u0153ur, dans la splendeur naturelle des paysages tropicaux. Extrait : Vous autres Europ\u00e9ens, dont l’esprit se remplit d\u00e8s l’enfance de tant de pr\u00e9jug\u00e9s contraires au bonheur, vous ne pouvez concevoir que la nature puisse donner tant de lumi\u00e8res et de plaisirs. Votre \u00e2me, circonscrite dans une petite sph\u00e8re de connaissances humaines, atteint bient\u00f4t le terme de ses jouissances artificielles : mais la nature et le c\u0153ur sont in\u00e9puisables. Paul et Virginie n’avaient ni horloges, ni almanachs, ni livres de chronologie, d’histoire, et de philosophie. Les p\u00e9riodes de leur vie se r\u00e9glaient sur celles de la nature. Ils connaissaient les heures du jour par l’ombre des arbres ; les saisons, par les temps o\u00f9 ils donnent leurs fleurs ou leurs fruits ; et les ann\u00e9es, par le nombre de leurs r\u00e9coltes. Ces douces images r\u00e9pandaient les plus grands charmes dans leurs conversations. \u00ab Il est temps de d\u00eener, disait Virginie \u00e0 la famille, les ombres des bananiers sont \u00e0 leurs pieds \u00bb ; ou bien : \u00ab La nuit s’approche, les tamarins ferment leurs feuilles. \u00bb<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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