MODERNITY wounds the soul of Pierre Loti. Exotic, dreamer of dreams that perish, lover of the Orient, the past, and of the beauty that shrouds itself in mystery, he in distinctly out of sympathy with life in the present, as with almost every aspect of what is called progress.
Armchair travels with Pierre Loti
He was a great French writer and a tireless traveller. He went to India, the Sahara, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Morocco and even Iceland. He also wrote tales of the Pyrenees and Brittany. Jill Kamil joined Pierre Loti on his travels in Egypt
much has been written about him.
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