Pierre Loti
French writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Pierre Loti was a French naval officer and novelist, known for his exotic novels and short stories. Biography Born to a Protestant family, Loti's education began in his birthplace, Rochefort, Charente-Maritime. At age 17 he entered the naval school in Brest and studied at Le Borda. He gradually rose in his profession, attaining the rank of captain in 1906. In January 1910 he went on the reserve list. He was in the habit of claiming that he never read books, saying to the Académie française on the day of his introduction , "Loti ne sait pas lire" , but testimony from friends proves otherwise, as does his library, much of which is preserved in his house in Rochefort. In 1876 fellow naval officers persuaded him to turn into a novel passages in his diary dealing with some curious experiences in Istanbul. The result was the anonymously published Aziyadé , part romance, part autobiography, like the work of his admirer, Marcel Proust, after him.
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