While I understand that documents and primary accounts can be hit or miss for historical figures, I found this biography rather thin on any direct reflections on Saint-George. A lot of the portion I read was background on other figures in French society - with lots of elaborate French names, including for figures that aren't important in the account at all, and many of which are repeated or shared between figures - and on various organizations and institutions. This kind of landscape setting is important, but in this instance, it felt tedious and more like an overview of upper-class arts culture. I also very much disliked the author's own use of referring to Saint-George as "the mulatto."  It's too bad this is the only biography of Saint-George available from my local library.