Xavier Boniface Saintine (10 July 1798 – 21 January 1865) was a French dramatist and novelist.

In 1823, he produced a volume of poetry in the manner of the Romanticists, entitled Poèmes, odes, épîtres.

[2] He produced many other novels, none of striking individuality with the exception of Seul (1857), which purported to be the authentic record of Alexander Selkirk on his desert island.

Saintine was a prolific dramatist, and collaborated in more than 200 pieces with Eugène Scribe and others, usually under the name of Xavier.

[1][2] A very prolific author, he wrote more than 200 theatre plays and novels under the pen names Saintine, X.B.