Adrien-Michel-Hyacinthe Blin de Sainmore

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.

• 1764: Lettre sur la nouvelle édition de Corneille par M. de Voltaire. • 1768: Héroïdes ou lettres en vers, preceded by a letter by Sautreau de Marsy, Delalain. • 1768: Lettre de Jean Calas à sa femme et à ses enfans, preceded by épître à M. de de*** sur le sentiment and followed by Lettre de Gabrielle d’Estrées à Henri IV, impr. de S. Jorry. • 1771: Épître à Racine. • 1773: Orphanis, tragedy, by M. Blin de Sainmore, premiered by les comédiens ordinaires du Roi, Saturday 25 September 1773, Delalain. • 1773: Lettre de la duchesse de La Vallière à Louis XIV, précédée d’un abrégé de sa vie, Le Jay. • 1775: Joachim ou le Triomphe de la piété filiale, drama in three acts and in verse, followed by de la Requête des filles de Salency à la Reine, les libraires associés. • 1788: Éloge historique de M. Georges-Louis Phélypeaux d'Herbault,... archevêque de Bourges, Clousier. • 1797–1799: Histoire de Russie, presented by pictures accompanied by a historical summary; • 1805: Essai sur la vie de Jean Rotrou. • Correspondance littéraire de Moscou, presented and et annotated by Eléna Lébédéva; with collaboration of Françoise Weil, Éditions Slatkine, Geneva, 2005.

Adrien-Michel-Hyacinthe Blin de Sainmore is recorded with the occupation playwright. Recorded as having received Officer of the Order of the Holy Spirit and Knight of the Order of Saint Michael.