Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737-1814) was a French writer and botanist. He was born in Le Havre and died in Eragny, Val-d'Oise. In 1795 he was elected to the Institut de France the predecessor of the Academie Francaise. He is best known for his 1788 novel Paul and Virginia which was written on the eve of the French Revolution. It records the fate of a child of nature corrupted by the false, artificial sentimentality that prevailed at the time among the upper classes of France.

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