Paul et Virginie. English

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Paul et Virginie. English Paul et Virginie. English

Author: Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

Category: Literature

Published: 2006

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The Paul et Virginie (or Paul and Virginia) is a novel. The novel's title characters are very good friends since birth who fall in love. The story is set in the island of Mauritius under French rule, then named Île de France, which the author had visited. Written on the eve of the French Revolution, the novel is hailed as Bernardin's finest work. 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.