Paul and Virginia from the French of J.B.H. de Saint Pierre
Description of the book
'Paul and Virginia' is a novel by the French author Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. The novel's title characters are friends since birth who fall in love. The story is set on the island of Mauritius under French rule, then named Île de France. Written on the eve of the French Revolution, the novel is recognized as Bernardin's finest work. It records the fate of a child of nature corrupted by the artificial sentimentality of the French upper classes in the late eighteenth century.
