See also:

• PIERRE

PIERRE [the See also:

• PEN (Lat. penna, a feather, pen)

pen-name of See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis See also:

• MARIE

MARIE Ju.See also:

• LIEN

LIEN VIAUD] See also:

• PIERRE [the pen-name of Louis MARIE Ju.LIEN VIAUD] LOTI (1850— )

LOTI (1850— )  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French author, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• ROCHEFORT
• ROCHEFORT, HENRI, MARQUIS DE

Rochefort on the 14th of See also:

• JANUARY

January 185o . The Viands are an old See also:

• PROTESTANT

Protestant See also:

• FAMILY

family, and See also:

• PIERRE

Pierre See also:

• LOTI, PIERRE [the pen-name of Louis MARIE Ju.LIEN VIAUD] (1850— )

Loti consistently adhered, at least nominally, to the faith of his fathers . Of the picturesque and touching incidents of his childhood he has given a very vivid See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account in Le See also:

• ROMAN

Roman d'un enf See also:

• ANT
• ANT (O. Eng. aemete, from Teutonic a, privative, and maitan, cut or bite off, i.e. " the biter off "; aemete in Middle English became differentiated in dialect use to (mete, then amte, and so ant, and also to emete, whence the synonym " emmet," now only u

ant (1890) . His See also:

• EDUCATION

education began in See also:

• ROCHE, SIR BOYLE, BART

Roche-fort, but at the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of seventeen, being destined for the See also:

• NAVY

navy, he entered the See also:

• NAVAL

naval school, Le See also:

• BORDA, JEAN CHARLES (1733-1799)

Borda, and gradually See also:

• ROSE
• ROSE (Rosa)
• ROSE, GEORGE (1744-1818)
• ROSE, HUGH JAMES (1795—1838)
• ROSE, WILLIAM STEWART (1775-1843)

rose in his profession, attaining the See also:

• RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank of See also:

• CAPTAIN (derived from Lat. ca put, head, through the Low Lat. capitanus)

captain in 1906 . In January 1910 he was placed on the reserve See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list . His See also:

• PSEUDONYM (Gr. >l ev&,vuµos, having a false name, ¢Evirls, false and ovoµa, name)

pseudonym is said to be due to his extreme shyness and reserve in See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• LIFE

life, which made his comrades See also:

• CALL (from Anglo-Saxon ceallian, a common Teutonic word, cf. Dutch kallen, to talk or chatter)

call him after le Loti, an See also:

• INDIAN

Indian See also:

• FLOWER (Lat. flos, floris; Fr. fleur)
• FLOWER, SIB

flower which loves to blush unseen . He was never given to books or study (when he was received at the French See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy, he had the courage to say, " Loti ne sait pas lire "), and it was not until 1876 that he was persuaded to write down and publish some curious experiences at See also:

• CONSTANTINOPLE
• CONSTANTINOPLE, COUNCILS OF

Constantinople, in Aziyade, a See also:

• BOOK

book which, like so many of Loci's, seems See also:

• HALF

half a See also:

• ROMANCE

romance, half an autobiography . He proceeded to the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

South Seas, and on leaving See also:

• TAHITI

Tahiti published the Polynesian See also:

• IDYL, or IDYLL (Gr. ei5i XXeov, a descriptive piece, from ethos, a shape or style; Lat. idyllium)

idyl, originally called Rarahu (188o), which was reprinted as Le Mariage de Loti, and which first introduced to the wider public an author of remarkable originality and See also:

• CHARM (through the Fr. from the Lat. carmen, a song)

charm . Le Roman d'un spahi, a See also:

• RECORD (Lat. recordari, to recall to mind, from cor, heart or mind)

record of the See also:

• MELANCHOLY (Gr. µe)tayXotia, from µEtas, black, and Xotii, bile)

melancholy adventures of a soldier in See also:

• SENEGAMBIA

Senegambia, belongs to 1881.' In 1882 Loti issued a collection of See also:

• SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short studies under the See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of Fleurs d'ennui . In 1883 he achieved the widest celebrity, for not only did he publish Mon See also:

• FRERE, JOHN HOOKHAM (1769-1846)
• FRERE, PIERRE EDOUARD (1819-1886)
• FRERE, SIR HENRY BARTLE EDWARD (1815-1884)

frere Yves, a novel describing the life of a French bluejacket in all parts of the See also:

• WORLD

world—perhaps his most characteristic See also:

• PRODUCTION (Lat. productionem, from producere, to pro-duce)

production—but he was involved in a public discussion in a manner which did him See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• CREDIT (Lat. credere, to believe)

credit . While taking See also:

• PART

part as a naval officer in the See also:

• TONGKING

Tongking See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War, Loti had exposed in the See also:

• FIGARO

Figaro a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of scandals which followed on the See also:

• CAPTURE (from Lat. capere, to take; Fr. prise maritime; Ger. Wegnahme)

capture of See also:

• HUE

Hue (1883), and was suspended from the service for more than a See also:

• YEAR

year . He continued for some See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time nearly silent, but in 1886 he published a novel of life among the See also:

• BRETON, BRITTON
• BRETON, JULES ADOLPHE

Breton See also:

• FISHER
• FISHER, ALVAN (1792–1863)
• FISHER, GEORGE PARK (1827-1909)
• FISHER, JOHN (c. 1469-1535)
• FISHER, JOHN ARBUTHNOT FISHER, 1ST BARON

fisher-folk, called Pe"cheur d'islande, the most popular of all his writings .

In 1887 he brought out a See also:

• VOLUME

volume of extraordinary merit, which has not received the See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention it deserves; this is Propos d'exil, a series of short studies of See also:

• EXOTIC (Gr. EWTIK6s, foreign, from few, outside)

exotic places, in his See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar semi-autobiographic See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style . The fantastic novel of See also:

• JAPANESE

Japanese See also:

• MANNERS, CHARLES (1857– )

manners, Madame Chrysantheme, belongs to the same year . Passing over one or two slighter productions, we come in 1890 to Au Maroc, the record of a See also:

• JOURNEY (through O. Fr. jornee or journee, mod. Fr. journee, from med. Lat. diurnata, Lat. diurnus, of or belonging to dies, day)

journey to See also:

• FEZ (Fes)

Fez in See also:

• COMPANY

company with a French See also:

• EMBASSY

embassy . A collection of strangely confidential and sentimental reminiscences, called Le Livre de la pitie et de la mort, belongs to 1891 . Loti was on See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board his See also:

• SHIP

ship at the See also:

• PORT

port of See also:

• ALGIERS (Fr. Alger, Arab. Jezair, i.e. The Islands)

Algiers when See also:

• NEWS

news was brought to him of his See also:

• ELECTION
• ELECTION (from Lat. eligere, to pick out)

election, on the 21St of May 1891, to the French Academy . In 1892 he published FantOme d'orient, another dreamy study of life in Constantinople, a sort of continuation of Aziyade . He described a visit to the See also:

• HOLY

Holy See also:

• LAND

Land, somewhat too copiously, in three volumes (1895-1896), and wrote a novel, Ramuntcho (1897), a See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story of manners in the Basque See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province, which is equal to his best writings . In 1900 he visited See also:

• BRITISH

British See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India, with the view of describing what he saw; the result appeared in 1903 —L'Inde (sans See also:

• LES

les Anglais) . At his best Pierre Loti was unquestionably the finest descriptive writer of the See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day . In the delicate exactitude with which he reproduced the impression given to his own alert nerves by unfamiliar forms, See also:

• COLOURS, MILITARY

colours, sounds and perfumes, he was without a See also:

• RIVAL

rival . But he was not satisfied with this exterior charm; he desired to blend with it a moral sensibility of the extremest refinement, at once sensual and ethereal . Many of his best books are See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long sobs of remorseful memory, so See also:

• PERSONAL

personal, so intimate, that an See also:

• ENGLISH

English reader is amazed to find such See also:

• DEPTH

depth of feeling compatible with the See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of minutely and publicly recording what is See also:

• FELT (cognate with Ger. Filz, Du. vilt, Swed. and Dan. fill; the root is unknown; the word has given Med. Lat. filtrum, " filter ")

felt .

In spite of the beauty and See also:

• MELODY (Gr. ,ueXw3ia, a choral song, from name, tune, and gi6i, song)

melody and fragrance of Loti's books his mannerisms are See also:

• APT

apt to See also:

• PALL

pall upon the reader, and his later books of pure description were rather empty . His greatest successes were gained in the See also:

• SPECIES

species of See also:

• CONFESSION (Lat. confessio, from confiteor, acknowledge, confess)

confession, half-way between fact and fiction, which he essayed in his earlier books . When all his limitations, however, have been rehearsed, Pierre Loti remains, in the mechanism of style and See also:

• CADENCE (through the Fr. from the Lat. cadentia, from cadere, to fall)

cadence, one of the most See also:

• ORIGINAL

original and most perfect French writers of the second half of the 19th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . Among his later See also:

• WORKS

works were: La Troisieme jeunesse de Mme See also:

• PRUNE (adapted in various forms, e.g. prunne, proyne, &c., from Fr. prune, Med. Lat. pruna, Lat. prunum, Gr. irpovvov, earlier Trpouµvov, plum)

Prune (1905); Les Desenchantees (1906, Eng. trans. by C . See also:

• BELL
• BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
• BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
• BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
• BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
• BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
• BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
• BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
• BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
• BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
• BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
• BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)

Bell) ; La Mort de See also:

• PHILAE

Philae (19o8); See also:

• JUDITH, THE BOOK OF

Judith Renaudin (See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

Theatre See also:

• ANTOINE, ANDRE (1858- )

Antoine, 1904), a five-See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical See also:

• PLAY

play based on an earlier book; and, in collaboration with Emile Vedel, a See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation of See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

King See also:

• LEAR, EDWARD (1812-1888)

Lear, also produced at the Theatre Antoine in 1904 .