St. Pierre, Henri Bernardin de, French novelist, born at Havre; an engineer by profession, was a disciple of Rousseau both sentimentally and speculatively; his chief work, “Paul and Virginia” (q.v.), shows here as in his other writings, says Professor Saintsbury, “a remarkable faculty of word-painting, and also of influencing the feelings” (1737-1814).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
St. Petersburg * St. Quentin