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Adrien-Michel-Hyacinthe Blin de SainmoreAdrien-Michel-Hyacinthe Blin de Sainmore (15 February 1733, in Paris – 26 September 1807, in Paris) was an 18th–century French poet, playwright and historian. Coming from a family that had been ruined by Law's system, Blin de Sainmore studied at collège du Cardinal-Lemoine, and sought in retirement and study consolation to the rigors of fortune. He wrote several héroïdes and other poems such as Mort de l’amiral Bing, Sapho à Phaon, Biblis à Caunus, Gabrielle d’Estrées à Henri IV, Calas à sa femme et à ses enfants, la Duchesse de la Vallière, etc. His poems and one épitre à Racine were gathered in 1774 in 1 vol. In 1769, he gave a collection entitled l’Élite des poésies fugitives, 3 vol. in-12, to which Luneau de Boisjermain added a 4th in 1773. He composed a tragedy entitled Orphanis , which was favorably received, but could not stay in the theater. He made several works, among others a Histoire de Russie, in 2 vol. with illustrations, in-4, and left several handbooks. He was preparing to give a complete edition of his works when he died. He was a custodian and historian of the archives of ordres de Saint-Michel and du Saint-Esprit. A cofounder of the Société philanthropique, he was appointed royal censor in 1776, and curator at Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in 1800. Works
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