Paul and Virginia is a novel written by Paul Bernadin de Saint Pierre in 1787. The story takes place on the lost paradise of the "Isle de France" future Mauritius. This is the story of two children born from different families but raised together. At the adolescence they started having feelings for eachother. Virginia's mother didn't want her daughter to fall in love with Paul and decided to send her study in France. Left behind Paul was desperate and waited for his love to come back. Several years later Virginia came back on the Isle de France but on her way back the boat crushed on the reefs because of a storm. Virginia died before she could come back home.
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