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Henry Daguerches

1876–1939

A French naval officer turned novelist, he brought firsthand experience of Asia into fiction that won major literary attention in interwar France. His work is often remembered for vivid colonial settings and a strong sense of travel, distance, and unease.

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Le kilomètre 83

Le kilomètre 83

by Henry Daguerches

About the author

Born in 1876 and died in 1939, Henry Daguerches was a French writer best known for fiction shaped by his years in the navy and by his time in Asia. He wrote under the name Henry Daguerches rather than his birth name, and his books are closely linked with French colonial-era settings, especially Indochina.

His best-known novel is Le Kilomètre 83, which received the Prix Goncourt in 1910. Readers often note the way his stories mix adventure, observation, and a more troubled view of exile and empire than a simple travel romance would suggest.

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