Pierre Loti (pseudonym of Louis Marie-Julien Viaud; 14 January 1850 – 10 June 1923) was a French naval officer and novelist, known for his exotic novels.
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 (April 7, 1892), "Loti ne sait pas lire" ("Loti doesn't know how to read"), 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 at Istanbul. The result was the anonymously published Aziyadé (1879), part romance, part autobiography, like the work of his admirer, Marcel Proust, after him.
Well I dreamed I saw the knights in armour coming saying something about a queen There were peasants singing and drummers drumming and the archer split the tree There was a fanfare blowing to the sun that was floating on the breeze Look at mother nature on the run in the nineteen-seventies I was lying in a burned out basement with a full moon in my eyes I was hoping for a replacement when the sun burst through the skies There was a band playing in my head and I felt like getting high I was thinking about what a friend had said I was hoping it was a lie Thinking about what a friend had said I was hoping it was a lie Well I dreamed i saw the silver spaceships flying in the yellow haze of the sun There were children crying and colors flying all around the chosen one All in a dream, all in a dream the loading had begun They were flying mother nature's silver seed to a new home in the sun Flying mother nature's silver seed to a new home in the sun
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Mysterious island in Europe changes country every six months. Credit. sejunco. CC BY 2.0/flickr ... The mysterious island in Europe ... One of the French officers with this title was Julien Viaud, more commonly known as the writer Pierre Loti ... ....
Henri IVHigh School is one of the most prestigious schools in the country, where many famous people, including Macron, philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and writer Pierre Loti, studied. .
His source material was a short story inspired by French novelist Pierre Loti’s “Madame Chrysanthème.” Loti based his book on his own experiences as a military officer who dallied with local women during his stopovers in Japan.
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His hugely successful (first performed in Milan in 1904) has its roots in a story published some 15 years earlier by a French naval officer and novelist by the name of Pierre Loti.It tells of his time in the Far East, married to a Japanese wife ... .
The StreetDogs of Istanbul” ...Actually it’s an eastern tradition ... “There wasn’t a drop of water to drink and the dogs killed each other out of hunger and thirst,” wrote French novelist and navy officer Pierre Loti, who frequented Istanbul at the time.
The StreetDogs of Istanbul" ...Actually it's an eastern tradition ... "There wasn't a drop of water to drink and the dogs killed each other out of hunger and thirst," wrote French novelist and navy officer Pierre Loti, who frequented Istanbul at the time.
San Diego Union-Tribune
21 Apr 2024
San Diego Union-Tribune
21 Apr 2024