Jacques Bins, comte de Saint-Victor

Jacques-Maximilien Benjamin Bins, comte de Saint-Victor (1772–1858) was a French poet and man of letters.

Bins de Saint-Victor was born in Fort Dauphin, Saint Domingue (now Fort-Liberté, Haiti) on the island of Hispaniola in 1772.

During the First Empire, Bins de Saint-Victor was arrested as a royalist conspirator and incarcerated at Paris.

Having tried without success to found a bookstore with Félicité Robert de Lamennais, he spent some time in the United States.

In addition to his poetical works and a verse translation of Anacreon, he published numerous historical studies as well as three opera libretti.