The Poet of Flowers: The Ethereal World of Simon Saint Jean In the grand tapestry of French art history, few threads are as delicate or as luminous as those woven by Simon Saint Jean. Born in Millery, France, in 1743, Saint Jean emerged not as a painter of sweeping historical dramas or turbulent landscapes, but as a master of the miniature soul. His life, though marked early on by the profound tragedy of his father's untimely death, b…