Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de 1737-1814 creator Williams, Helen Maria 1762-1827 text utu 2004 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Paul and Virginia from the French of J.B.H. de Saint Pierre" by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre is a novel published in 1788. Set on the island of Mauritius, it tells the story of two childhood friends raised together in natural simplicity who fall in love as they grow older. Their idyllic existence faces disruption when Virginie is sent to France to claim an inheritance, separating the devoted pair. Written on the eve of the French Revolution, this tale explores the clash between natural virtue and artificial society. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_et_Virginie Release date is 2004-01-01 Produced by Internet Archive; University of Florida, Children, Grenet and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team Original publication data not identified Slavery -- Fiction Love stories Friendship -- Fiction Shipwrecks -- Fiction Mauritius -- Fiction Death -- Fiction Charity -- Fiction PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10859 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10859 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133247.0 10859