Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, commonly called Saint-Pierre simply, a celebrated French writer, born at Havre; author of “Paul and Virginia,” written on the eve of the Revolution, called by Carlyle “the swan-song of old dying France,” (1739‒1814).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bernard of Morlaix * Bernardine, St., of Siena