Jacques Bins, comte de Saint-Victor

Jacques Bins, comte de Saint-Victor
Born 1772
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Died 1858 (aged 8586)
Paris, France
Occupation Poet, Man of letters
Nationality French
Children Paul de Saint-Victor

Jacques-Maximilien Benjamin Bins, comte de Saint-Victor (1772 - 1858), a French poet and man of letters.

Personal

Bins de Saint-Victor was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola in 1772. At the time of his birth, the island was a French colony, with French rule of the island colony of Haiti taking place in 1795 as a consequence of the French Revolutionary Wars. He died in Paris in 1858.

His son, Paul de Saint-Victor, became a well-known essayist and critic.

Career

During the First Empire, Bins de Saint-Victor was arrested as a royalist conspirator and incarcerated at Paris. After the fall of Napoleon, he was one of the editors of the Journal des débats and also worked on the Drapeau blanc. Having tried without success to found a bookstore with Félicité Robert de Lamennais, he spent some time in the United States. On his return he worked at the La France newspaper.

In addition to his poetic works and a translation of Anacréon in verse, he published numerous studies, such as three booklets on opera.

Works

Poems

Essays and correspondence

Booklets

External links

Texts available at Gallica
Texts available online