to Paul et Virginie when taking Ursula on a punt (chapter 11). The architect Le Corbusier mentioned Paul et Virginie as one of the "great works of art...based on one or other of the great standards of the heart" in Toward an Architecture (1923). The Cuban author Alejo Carpentier's El reino de este mundo (1949; English The Kingdom of This World) recurs widely on the poetic world of the classical novel. Jorge Luis Borges mentions the novel in his story The South, the final chapter of Ficciones: "Something in its poor architecture recalled a steel engraving, perhaps one from an old edition of Paul et Virginie." Cordwainer Smith Bases the arc of the two main characters in his story Alpha Ralpha Boulevard on Paul et Virginie, naming his characters Paul and Virginia and setting the story in a partial revival of 19th and 20th century French culture some 14000 years in our future. In Indiana (1832), George Sand mentions the titular characters in chapter 30 when Ralph professes his love for Indiana. Popular music Circa 1855 Louis-Antoine Jullien published the Paul et Virginie Valse. The Cincinnati band Over the Rhine has a song titled "Paul and Virginia" on their album 'Till We Have Faces' (itself a reference to the novel by C. S. Lewis) References Norman Hampson, The Enlightenment (Penguin,1982) External links , translated by Helen Maria Williams Paul et Virginie, audio version 1788 novels 18th-century French novels French novels adapted into films French romance novels Novels set in Mauritius Isle de France (Mauritius) Novels set in the French colonial empire Novels adapted into operas