author
Maurice Larrouy
1882–1939
A French naval officer who turned life at sea into lively fiction and memoir, he wrote with firsthand knowledge of ships, sailors, and wartime voyages. His books blend adventure with the texture of real maritime experience.
3 Audiobooks
Vagabonds of the sea : The campaign of a French cruiser
by Maurice Larrouy
L'odyssée d'un transport torpillé
by Maurice Larrouy
The odyssey of a torpedoed tramp
by Maurice Larrouy
About the author
Born in Oran in 1882, Maurice Larrouy was a French marine officer and writer. Reliable catalog and reference sources identify him as also writing under the pen name René Milan, and his background in the navy shaped much of what he published.
Larrouy studied for a naval career and later drew on that experience in novels and sea narratives that often focused on shipboard life, travel, and war. English-language records for his work include The Odyssey of a Torpedoed Transport and Vagabonds of the Sea, both of which reflect the maritime world he knew firsthand.
He died in Meung-sur-Loire in 1939. Today, he is chiefly remembered as a naval writer whose stories carry the detail and atmosphere of someone who had truly lived the life he described.