Pierre Loti

Louis-Marie-Julien Viaud, known as Pierre Loti, born on January 14, 1850, in Rochefort, and died on June 10, 1923, in Hendaye, was a French writer, naval officer, and member of the Académie Française. Pierre Loti, whose work is largely autobiographical, drew inspiration from his travels for his novels, for example, in Tahiti for *Le…