
Language
fr
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Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Laurent Vogel, Carol Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr)
Release date
2010-08-01
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1850–1923
A naval officer who turned travel and memory into vivid fiction, this French writer became famous for books that carried readers to Istanbul, Japan, and beyond. His work blends romance, melancholy, and a strong sense of place, giving even distant settings an intimate, personal feel.
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