Pierre Loti

Julien Viaud, who wrote under the name Pierre Loti, was born in Rochefort on 14 January 1850. Having entered the naval college in 1867, he pursued a career as a naval officer and carried on his travels and his writing side by side, drawing his first books from his distant ports of call. Elected to the Académie française in 1891, he was then its youngest member. He died in Hendaye on 10 June 1923 and was given a state funeral, before being buried on the island of Oléron.

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• NovelAn Iceland FishermanPêcheur d'IslandePierre Loti · 1886LiteraturePublic domain