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Pierre Loti
Pierre Loti was a French naval officer and novelist, known for his exotic novels and short stories.
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culture · French naval officer, novelist, and Turkophile · writer · naval officer · novelist · essayist · diarist · journalist · travel writer · photographer · draftsperson · also Pierre Loti, Julien Viaud, Louis Marie Julien Viaud, Piyer Loti, Loti
Born 14 January 1850 · Died 10 June 1923 · Q311854
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And now I salute thee with awe, with veneration, and wonder, ancient India, of whom I am the adept, the India of the highest splendor of art and philosophy. May thy awakening astonish the Occident, decadent, mean, daily dwindling, slayer of nations, slayer of Gods, slayer of souls, which yet bows down still, ancient India, before the prodigies of thy primordial conceptions!
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Career landmark: seat 13 of the Académie française (1891–1923).
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2026· 3 entries
Ouest-France: Rémalard-en-Perche. La maison de Pierre Loti à l’honneur
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Actu.fr: Conférence à Rémalard-en-Perche : les coulisses de l’incroyable restauration de la maison de Pierre Loti
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2025· 2 entries
Connaissance des Arts: À Rochefort, l’éblouissante maison-musée de Pierre Loti dévoile sa splendeur et ses décors retrouvés
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Donatello: Après 5 ans de travaux, la maison Pierre Loti à Rochefort rouvre le 10 juin 2025 !
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2023· 3 entries
Le Petit Journal: Alain Quella-Villéger nous parle de Pierre Loti, grand admirateur de la Turquie 1/2
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Le Figaro: Maison de Pierre Loti: le rendez-vous manqué du centenaire
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Sud Ouest: Pierre Loti et le Sud-Ouest : dans les pas de l’écrivain voyageur
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2021· 1 entry
Sud Ouest: Hendaye : pourquoi le canot luzien de la SNSM porte-t-il le nom de Pierre Loti ?
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2018· 1 entry
Le Monde.fr: Pierre Loti gagnant du loto du patrimoine
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1923· 3 entries
Died 1923-06-10.
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“And now I salute thee with awe, with veneration, and wonder, ancient India, of whom I am the adept, the India of the highest splendor of art and philosophy. May thy awakening astonish the Occident, decadent, mean, daily dwindling, slayer of nations, slayer of Gods, slayer of souls, which yet bows down still, ancient India, before the prodigies of thy primordial conceptions!”
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In Hendaye and was interred on the island of Oléron with a state funeral
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1912· 1 entry
At the Century Theatre in New York City, Loti mounted a production of The Daughter of Heaven, a George Egerton adaptation of his French play La fille du ciel, commissioned in March 1903 by Sarah Bernhardt, written in col
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1899· 1 entry
And 1900 Loti visited British India, with the view of describing what he saw; the result appeared in 1903 in L'Inde (sans les anglais) (India (without the English))
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1898· 1 entry
Collected his later essays as Figures et Choses qui passaient (Passing Figures and Things)
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1892· 1 entry
Published Fantôme d'orient, a short novel derived from a subsequent trip to Constantinople, less a continuation of Aziyadé than a commentary on it
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1891· 1 entry
Career landmark: seat 13 of the Académie française (1891–1923).
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1890· 1 entry
Loti published Au Maroc, the record of a journey to Fez in company with a French embassy, and Le Roman d'un enfant (The Story of a Child), a somewhat fictionalized recollection of Loti's childhood that would greatly infl
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1887· 1 entry
Brought out a volume "of extraordinary merit, which has not received the attention it deserves", Propos d'exil, a series of short studies of exotic places, in his characteristic semi-autobiographic style
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1886· 2 entries
Awarded Vitet Prize (1886).
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Loti published a novel of life among the Breton fisherfolk, called Pêcheur d'Islande (An Iceland Fisherman), which Edmund Gosse characterized as "the most popular and finest of all his writings
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1884· 1 entry
His friend Émile Pouvillon dedicated his novel L'Innocent to Loti
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1883· 1 entry
Loti achieved a wider public spotlight
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1882· 1 entry
Loti issued a collection of four shorter pieces, three stories and a travel piece, under the general title of Fleurs d'ennui (Flowers of Boredom)
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1876· 1 entry
Fellow naval officers persuaded him to turn into a novel passages in his diary dealing with some curious experiences in Istanbul
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1850· 1 entry
Born 1850-01-14.
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