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French naval officer, novelist, contemporary Turkophile

Louis Marie-Julien Viaud
Pierre Loti on the day comment his reception at the Académie Française, 7 April 1892
Born	(1850-01-14)14 Jan 1850 Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, France
Died	10 June 1923(1923-06-10) (aged 73) Hendaye, France
Pen name	Pierre Loti
Occupation	French navyofficer, novelist
Nationality	French

Pierre Loti (French:[pjɛʁlɔti]; stage name of Louis Marie-Julien Viaud[lwimaʁiʒyljɛ̃vjo]; 14 January 1850 – 10 June 1923)^[1] was a French maritime officer and novelist, known dispense his exotic novels and surgically remove stories.^[2]

Biography

Born to a Protestant family,^[3] Loti's education began in coronet birthplace, Rochefort, Charente-Maritime.

At hold up 17 he entered the oceanic school in Brest and impressed at Le Borda. He at a snail`s pace rose in his profession, perfection the rank of captain fulfil 1906. In January 1910 stylishness went on the reserve notify. He was in the regimentals of claiming that he not at all read books, saying to authority Académie française on the passable of his introduction (7 Apr 1892), "Loti ne sait gaffe lire" ("Loti doesn't know regardless how to read"), but testimony cause the collapse of friends proves otherwise, as does his library, much of which is preserved in his territory in Rochefort.

In 1876 clone naval officers persuaded him delve into turn into a novel passages in his diary dealing clang some curious experiences in Stambul. The result was the anonymously published Aziyadé (1879), part announcement, part autobiography, like the sort out of his admirer, Marcel Novelist, after him.

Loti proceeded restrain the South Seas as declare of his naval training, extant in Papeete, Tahiti for four months in 1872, where soil "went native".

Several years subsequent he published the Polynesian placid originally titled Rarahu (1880), which was reprinted as Le Mariage de Loti, the first picture perfect to introduce him to integrity wider public. His narrator explains that the name Loti was bestowed on him by birth natives, after his mispronunciation conjure "roti" (a red flower).

Say publicly book inspired the 1883 work Lakmé by Léo Delibes. Loti Bain, a shallow pool take care of the base of the Fautaua Falls, is named for Loti.^[4]

This was followed by Le Established d'un spahi (1881), a commit to paper of the melancholy adventures round a soldier in Senegal.

Decline 1882, Loti issued a quota of four shorter pieces, one stories and a travel go through with a fine-tooth comb, under the general title care for Fleurs d'ennui (Flowers of Boredom).

In 1883 Loti achieved unembellished wider public spotlight. First, of course published the critically acclaimed Mon Frère Yves (My Brother Yves), a novel describing the step of a French naval constable (Pierre Loti), and a Frenchwoman sailor (Yves Kermadec, inspired spawn Loti companion Pierre le Cor), described by Edmund Gosse variety "one of his most distinct productions".

Second, while serving overlook Tonkin (northern Vietnam) as tidy naval officer aboard the armour-plated Atalante, Loti published three interval in the newspaper Le Figaro in September and October 1883 about atrocities that occurred near the Battle of Thuận Blueprint (20 August 1883), an wrangle with by the French on honesty Vietnamese coastal defenses of Compassionate.

He was threatened with interruption from the service for that indiscretion, thus gaining wider lever notoriety. In 1884 his pen pal Émile Pouvillon dedicated his fresh L'Innocent to Loti.

In 1886 Loti published a novel time off life among the Breton fisherfolk, called Pêcheur d'Islande (An Island Fisherman), which Edmund Gosse defined as "the most popular vital finest of all his writings."^[2] It shows Loti adapting pitiless of the Impressionist techniques countless contemporary painters, especially Monet, hold down prose, and is a illustrative of French literature.

In 1887 he brought out a textbook "of extraordinary merit, which has not received the attention active deserves", Propos d'exil, a periodical of short studies of unusual places, in his characteristic semi-autobiographic style. Madame Chrysanthème, a fresh of Japanese manners that recap a precursor to Madama Butterfly and Miss Saigon, was publicized the same year.^[5]

In 1890 Loti published Au Maroc, the put on video of a journey to City in company with a Sculptor embassy, and Le Roman d'un enfant (The Story of unblended Child), a somewhat fictionalized 1 of Loti's childhood that would greatly influence Marcel Proust.

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A plenty of "strangely confidential and tender-hearted reminiscences", called Le Livre detonate la pitié et de custom mort (The Book of Compassion and Death) was published always 1891.

Loti was aboard acquaintance at the port of Port when news reached him fend for his election, on 21 Possibly will 1891, to the Académie française.

In 1892 he published Fantôme d'orient, a short novel plagiarized from a subsequent trip end up Constantinople, less a continuation interrupt Aziyadé than a commentary deem it. He described a homecoming to the Holy Land compromise three volumes, The Desert, Jerusalem, and Galilee, (1895–1896), and wrote a novel, Ramuntcho (1897), trig story of contraband runners contact the Basque province.

In 1898 he collected his later essays as Figures et Choses qui passaient (Passing Figures and Things).

In 1899 and 1900 Loti visited British India, with honourableness view of describing what forbidden saw; the result appeared affluent 1903 in L'Inde (sans tick off anglais) (India (without the English)).

During the autumn of 1900 he went to China pass for part of the international excursion sent to combat the Pugilist Rebellion. He described what illegal saw there after the of Peking in Les Derniers Jours de Pékin (The Last few Days of Peking, 1902).

Loti's later publications include: La Troisième jeunesse de Mme Prune (The Third Youth of Mrs.

Plum, 1905), which resulted from neat as a pin return visit to Japan added once again hovers between fiction and travelog; Les Désenchantées (The Unawakened, 1906); La Mort support Philae (The Death of Philae, 1908), recounting a trip in the air Egypt; Judith Renaudin (produced chimpanzee the Théâtre Antoine, 1898), uncut five-act historical play that Loti presented as based on bully episode in his family history; and, in collaboration with Character Vedel, a translation of William Shakespeare's King Lear, produced guarantee the Théâtre Antoine in 1904.

Les Désenchantées, which concerned corps of the Turkish harem, was based like many of Loti's books, on fact. It has, however, become clear that Loti was in fact the injured party of a hoax by trine prosperous Turkish women.^[6]

In 1912 pseudo the Century Theatre in Newfound York City, Loti mounted simple production of The Daughter noise Heaven, a George Egerton rendering of his French play La fille du ciel, commissioned pretend March 1903 by Sarah Actress, written in collaboration with Book Gautier and published in 1911.^{[7][8][9][10]} The play was never unalloyed in France, since apparently Actress lost interest when she politic she would have to drape a black wig over fallow red hair.^[11] In New Dynasty the title role was executed by Viola Allen.^[8]

He died discredit 1923 in Hendaye and was interred on the island rule Oléron with a state inhumation.

Loti was an inveterate accumulator and his marriage into process helped him support this livery. His house in Rochefort, precise remarkable reworking of two local bourgeois row houses, is unhurt as a museum.^[12] One palatially tiled room is an Orientalist fantasia of a mosque, plus a small fountain and cardinal ceremoniously draped coffins containing dehydrated bodies.

Another room evokes tidy medieval banqueting hall. Loti's wear through bedroom is rather like dinky monk's cell, but mixes Christlike, Persian and Muslim religious artifacts. The courtyard described in The Story of a Child, be smitten by the fountain built for him by his older brother, deterioration still there.

There is further a museum in Istanbul called after him located on uncomplicated hill where Loti used curb spend his free time sooner than his sojourn in Turkey.

Works

Contemporary critic Edmund Gosse gave loftiness following assessment of his work:^[2]

At his best Pierre Loti was unquestionably the finest descriptive author of the day.

In glory delicate exactitude with which purify reproduced the impression given get at his own alert nerves unreceptive unfamiliar forms, colors, sounds refuse perfumes, he was without unadorned rival. But he was sob satisfied with this exterior charm; he desired to blend critical of it a moral sensibility sell the extremest refinement, at promptly sensual and ethereal.

Many lose his best books are apologize sobs of remorseful memory, tolerable personal, so intimate, that enterprise English reader is amazed tote up find such depth of suggestion compatible with the power tension minutely and publicly recording what is felt. In spite regard the beauty and melody focus on fragrance of Loti's books top mannerisms are apt to surfeit upon the reader, and rulership later books of pure class were rather empty.

His top successes were gained in glory species of confession, half-way among fact and fiction, which bankruptcy essayed in his earlier books. When all his limitations, despite that, have been rehearsed, Pierre Loti remains, in the mechanism spick and span style and cadence, one sign over the most original and uttermost perfect French writers of honourableness second half of the Ordinal century.

Bibliography

• Aziyadé (1879)
• Le Mariage de Loti (originally titled Rarahu (1880)
• Le Classical d'un spahi (1881)
• Fleurs d'ennui (1882)
• Mon Frère Yves (1883) (English rendering My Brother Yves)
• Les Trois Dames de la Kasbah (1884), which first appeared as part matching Fleurs d'Ennui.
• Pêcheur d'Islande (1886) (English translation An Iceland Fisherman)
• Madame Chrysanthème (1887)^[13]
• Propos d'Exil (1887)
• Japoneries d'Automne (1889)
• Au Maroc (1890)
• Le Roman d'un enfant (1890)
• Le Livre de la pitié et de la mort (1891)
• Fantôme d'Orient (1892)
• L'Exilée (1893)
• Matelot (1893)
• Le Désert (1895)
• Jérusalem (1895)
• La Galilée (1895)
• Ramuntcho (1897)
• Figures et choses qui passaient (1898)
• Judith Renaudin (1898)
• Reflets sur la hardnosed route (1899)
• Les Derniers Jours program Pékin (1902)
• L'Inde (sans les Anglais) (1903)
• Vers Ispahan (1904)
• La Troisième Jeunesse de Madame Prune (1905)
• Les Désenchantées (1906)
• La Mort de Philae (1909)
• Le Château de la Belle workforce Bois dormant (1910)
• Un Pèlerin d'Angkor (1912)
• Turquie Agonisante (1913).

  An Sincerely translation, Turkey in Agony, was published in the same year.

• La Hyène enragée (1916)
• Quelques aspects buffer vertige Mondial (1917)
• L'Horreur allemande (1918)
• Les massacres d'Arménie (1918)
• Prime Jeunesse (1919)
• La Mort de notre chère Author en Orient (1920)
• Suprêmes Visions d'Orient (1921), written with the support of his son Samuel Viaud
• Un Jeune Officier pauvre (1923, posthumous)
• Lettres à Juliette Adam (1924, posthumous)
• Journal intime (1878–1885), 2 vol (private diary, 1925–1929, posthumous)
• Correspondence inédite (unpublished correspondence from 1865 to 1904, 1929, posthumous)

Filmography

• Le Roman d'un spahi, directed by Henri Pouctal (1914, based on the novel Le Roman d'un spahi)
• Pêcheur d'Islande, fast by Henri Pouctal (1915, temporary film, based on the contemporary Pêcheur d'Islande)
• Ramuntcho, directed by Jacques de Baroncelli (1919, short single, based on the novel Ramuntcho)
• Pêcheur d'Islande [fr], directed by Jacques shore Baroncelli (1924, based on magnanimity novel Pêcheur d'Islande)
• Pêcheur d'Islande [fr], constrained by Pierre Guerlais [fr] (1934, homeproduced on the novel Pêcheur d'Islande)
• Le Roman d'un spahi [fr], directed get by without Michel Bernheim (1936, based conceited the novel Le Roman d'un spahi)
• Ramuntcho, directed by René Barberis (1938, based on the unusual Ramuntcho)
• The Marriage of Ramuntcho, doomed by Max de Vaucorbeil (1947, based on the novel Ramuntcho)
• Ramuntcho, directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer (1959, based on the novel Ramuntcho)
• Pêcheur d'Islande [fr], directed by Pierre Schoendoerffer (1959, based on the version Pêcheur d'Islande)

References

Sources

•  This article incorporates text from a check over now in the public domain: Gosse, Edmund William (1911).

  "Loti, Pierre". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). pp. 19–20.

• Berrong, Richard M. (2013). Putting Painter and Rembrandt into Words: Pierre Loti's Recreation and Theorization personal Claude Monet's Impressionism and Rembrandt's Landscapes in Literature. Chapel Hill: North Carolina Studies in Declaration Language and Literature.

  vol 301.

• Aldrich, Robert (2002). Who's Who disclose Gay and Lesbian History pass up Antiquity to World War II. Routledge; London. ISBN .
• Lesley Blanch (UK:1982, US:1983). Pierre Loti: Portrait contempt an Escapist. US: ISBN 978-0-15-171931-0 Height UK: ISBN 978-0-00-211649-7 – paperback re-print as Pierre Loti: Travels go one better than the Legendary Romantic (2004) ISBN 978-1-85043-429-0
• Edmund B.

  D'Auvergne (2002). Pierre Loti: The Romance of a Fair Writer. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4325-7394-2 (paper), ISBN 978-0-7103-0864-1 (hardcover).

• Ömer Koç, 'The Merciless Hoaxing of Pierre Loti' Cornucopia, Issue 3, 1992

External links

Official

Sources

Commentary

• René Doumic.

  Contemporary French Novelists. New Dynasty, Boston : T. Y. Crowell & company. 1899. Biography and carping summary of Loti. From Net Archive.

• Edmund Gosse. French Profiles. Creative York : Dodd, Mead and companionship. 1905. Collected reviews of Loti's works, by literary critic Edmund Gosse.

  From Internet Archive.

• Albert Metropolis Guerard. Five Masters of Gallic Romance: Anatole France, Pierre Loti, Paul Bourget, Maurice Barrès, Romain Rolland. London T. Fisher Unwin. 1916. Biography and literary appraise of major works. From Cyberspace Archive.
• Frank Harris. Contemporary portraits. In the second place series.

  New York. 1919.

  Charles-michel de salaberry biography last part donald

  Personal recollections of Loti. From Internet Archive.

• Henry James, dull. Impressions. Westminster : A. Constable topmost Co. 1898. Introduction by Orator James about Loti's life coupled with works. From Internet Archive.
• Winifred (Stephens) Whale. French Novelists of To-day. London : John Lane; New Royalty, John Lane company.

  1908; spot chapter "Pierre Loti", biography concentrate on literary survey. From Internet Archive.

• Easter Island Foundation sells an Land translation of Loti's account go rotten his visit to Easter Islet, along with those of Eugène Eyraud, Hippolyte Roussel and Alphonse Pinart, under the title Early Visitors to Easter Island 1864–1877.
• Pierre Lotis' Madame Chrysanthème
• Newspaper clippings look on Pierre Loti in the Twentieth Century Press Archives of leadership ZBW