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1880–1914
A French army officer turned novelist, he drew on colonial service in Indochina and Morocco to write vivid adventure stories and reports. His work earned notice in major Paris newspapers and from the Académie française before his death in 1914.
by Emile Nolly
Writing under the name Émile Nolly, Georges Alfred Émile Nolly was a French military officer and author born in 1880 and killed in 1914 during the First World War. Reliable biographical sources describe him as entering military training young, then serving with the colonial troops.
His postings took him to Cochinchina, Cambodia, Tonkin, and Morocco, and those experiences became the material for his fiction and travel-inflected narratives. His stories and articles appeared in publications including La Revue de Paris, Le Matin, and Le Figaro.
He was also recognized by the Académie française, which awarded one of his books. A concise portrait image could not be confirmed from the sources I was able to access here, so none is included.