Crèvecoeur, Michel-Guillaume-Saint-Jean de
- Crèvecoeur, Michel-Guillaume-Saint-Jean de
o J. Hector St. John o Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
(31 ene. 1735, Caen, Francia–12 nov. 1813, Sarcelles).
Escritor y naturalista francoestadounidense. Viajó al Nuevo Mundo en 1755 como funcionario y cartógrafo. Se hizo granjero y más tarde fue cónsul de Francia durante un largo período. Regresó a Europa en 1790. Debe su fama a Letters from an American Farmer [Cartas de un granjero estadounidense] (1782, 1784, 1790), 12 ensayos en los que ofrece un completo panorama de la vida en EE.UU. Su Voyage dans la Haute Pensylvanie et dans l'Etat de New York [Viajes por la alta Pensilvania y el estado de Nueva York] apareció en 1801. En 1925 revivió el interés por Crèvecoeur al publicarse una serie de ensayos inéditos con el título de Sketches of Eighteenth Century America [Bocetos de los Estados Unidos del siglo XVIII]. En su época fue el más leído de los observadores de la realidad estadounidense.
Enciclopedia Universal.
2012.
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Crèvecoeur, Michel-Guillaume-Saint-Jean de — or J. Hector St. John or Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur born Jan. 31, 1735, Caen, France died Nov. 12, 1813, Sarcelles French U.S. writer and naturalist. He traveled to the New World in 1755 as an officer and mapmaker and became a farmer, then… … Universalium
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