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Pierre Loti[pyer lOtE´] Pronunciation Key, pseud. of Julien Viaud[zhUlyaN´ vyO] Pronunciation Key, 1850–1923, French novelist, an officer in the French navy. He achieved popularity with his impressionistic romances of adventure in exotic lands, such as AziyadE (1879), set in Constantinople, Rarahu (1880, later titled Mariage de Loti), set in Tahiti, and Madame ChrysanthEme (1888), set in Japan. His most enduring novels, however, are PEcheur d'Islande (1886; tr. An Iceland Fisherman), a tale of Breton fishermen, and Ramuntcho (1897; tr. 1897), a story of French Basque peasant life. Of his many travel books, Vers Ispahan (1904) is highly esteemed.
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