| Authorised form of name | Hyacinthe; Paul de Saint (1684 - 1746) |
| Other forms of name | Paul de |
| Other forms of surname | Saint Hyacinthe |
| Cordonnier |
| Chevalier de Themiseul |
| Dates | 1684 - 1746 |
| Nationality | French |
| Place of birth | Orleans, France |
| Date of birth | 24 September 1684 |
| Place of death | Genecken, near Breda, Holland |
| Date of death | 1746 |
| Occupation | Author |
| Activity | Education:
Oratory school, Troyes
Career:
Served as a cavalry officer; taken prisoner at the Battle of Helmstett and taken to Holland (1704); paroled, he went to Sweden in the hope of serving in the army of Charles XII but was unsuccessful and returned to Holland; had an affair with the wife of the Spanish Ambassador at the Hague and returned to Troyes when her husband discovered it; seduced a girl to whom he was giving Italian lessons and was forced to flee back to Holland; with Willem Jakob 's Gravesande and others founded the 'Journal litteraire de La Haye' (1713); wrote 'Chef d'oeuvre d'un inconnu', a witty criticism of pedantry which was a great popular success; he twice returned to Paris but was forced to depart because he was still wanted on a charge of rape; eloped with his future wife to London, where he received a pension as a Protestant refugee (1722); returned to Paris (1722) but, finding it boring, settled at Genecken |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 24/10/1728 |
| Proposer | Paul Buissiere |
| John Gaspar Scheuchzer |
| Peter Desmaizeaux |
| Relationships | Son of J J Cordonnier, Groom of the Chamber to Monsieur, brother of Louis XIV; married - de Marconay, daughter of a Huguenot refugee from Poitou |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; Biog Univ |
| Code | NA7004 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| CLP/10ii/12 | Paper, 'Description d'un nouveau genre de plante que je nomme oxyoïdes' by Monsieur [Laurent] Garcin | 5 January 1729 |
| CLP/10ii/14/2 | Plate, oxyoides malabarica sensitiva, oxyoids javanica sensitiva, and fruit of the musa by unknown artist | [1730] |
| CLP/15ii/16 | Paper, regarding 'Hirudinella marina' or sea leach by Laurent Garcin | 5 January 1729 |
| CLP/10ii/14/1 | Manuscript, 'Memoirs communicated by Monsr Garcin to Monsr St Hyacinthe FRS containing a description of a new family of plants called oxyoides; some remarks on the family of plants called musa; and a description of the hirudinella marina, or sea leach' by Laurent Garcin | [1730] |
| CLP/10ii/14 | Paper, 'Memoirs communicated by Monsr Garcin to Monsr St Hyacinthe FRS containing a description of a new family of plants called oxyoides; some remarks on the family of plants called musa; and a description of the hirudinella marina, or sea leach' by Laurent Garcin | [1730] |