Pierre Loti
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Pierre Loti was a French naval officer and novelist, known for his exotic novels and short stories.
Pierre Loti on the day of his reception at the Académie Française, 7 April 1892
Loti (right) with "Chrysanthème" and Pierre le Cor in Japan, 1885.
Loti caricatured by Guth for Vanity Fair, 1895
Portrait of Pierre Loti by Henri Rousseau, 1891
Le Mariage de Loti
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Le Mariage de Loti is an autobiographical novel by French author Pierre Loti. It was Loti's second novel and the first to win him great fame and a wide following. It describes Loti's romantic liaison
Pierre Loti
…months in 1872, where he "went native". Several years later he published the Polynesian idyll originally titled Rarahu (1880), which was reprinted as Le Mariage de Loti, the first book to introduce him to the wider public. His narrator explains that the name Loti was bestowed on him by the natives, after his mispronunciation…
Rarahu, drawing by Loti