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9 unusual facts about Pierre Loti


Essays in London and Elsewhere

James shows his usual interest in French writers with three essays including a perceptive appreciation of Pierre Loti, who "speaks better than anything else of the ocean, the thing in the world that, after the human race, has most intensity and variety of life."

Le Pays

Ropartz had already created a score for Louis Tiercelin's stage adaptation of Pierre Loti's novel Pêcheur d'Islande (An Iceland Fisherman) on the same basic theme.

Les Heures persanes

It is based on the French novelist and traveller Pierre Loti’s Vers Ispahan, detailing his journey across Persia.

Loti

Pierre Loti, the pseudonym of Louis Marie Julien Viaud, a French writer

Ludovic Hubler

2010 Pierre Loti award, rewarding the best travel book of the year 2009.

He wrote the travelbook Le Monde en stop, rewarded by the 2010 Pierre Loti award.

Rarahu

Berland probably adapted the genus name Rarahu from Pierre Loti's book of the same name, which was published in 1880.

Rokumeikan

Pierre Loti, who arrived in Japan in 1886, compared the building (in Japoneries d'Automne, 1889), to a mediocre casino in a French spa town, and the European-style ball to a “monkey show”.

Süleyman Nazif

As a result of a speech he gave on January 23, 1920 at a meeting to commemorate the French writer Pierre Loti, who had lived a while in Constantinople, Süleyman Nazif was forced into exile on Malta by the occupying British military.


Aziyadé

Aziyadé (1879; also known as Constantinople) is a novel by French author Pierre Loti.

Daniël Cornelis Boonzaier

This collection was not of much artistic merit, but was historically of great interest, since it included personalities such as Paul Kruger, Piet Joubert, Ellen Terry, Sarah Bernhardt, Henrik Ibsen, Leo Tolstoy, Émile Zola, Alphonse Daudet and Pierre Loti.

Mathurin Méheut

Between world wars, he illustrated books for authors including Colette, Maurice Genevoix, and Pierre Loti, and created ceramics at Henriot in Quimper, at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, and at Villeroy & Boch in Sarre.

Michel Lafourcade

Educated at the high school Pierre Loti of Rochefort, then graduated from the school of meteorology of Saint-Cyr-l'École.


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