Title | : | Madame Chrysanthème |
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Author | : | Pierre Loti |
Release | : | 2015-07-31 |
Kind | : | ebook |
Genre | : | Classics, Books, Fiction & Literature |
Size | : | 400790 |
Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.LOUIS-MARIE-JULIEN VIAUD, Pierre Loti, was born in Rochefort, of an old French-Protestant family, January 14, 1850. He was connected with the French Navy from 1867 to 1900, and is now a retired officer with full captain's rank. Although of a most energetic character and a veteran of various campaigns – Japan, Tonkin, Senegal, China (1900) – M. Viaud was so timid as a young midshipman that his comrades named him Loti, a small Indian flower which seems ever discreetly to hide itself |