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«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.»
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