Loti
PIERRE (lō-tē'), a French poet and novelist; real name LOUIS MARIE JULIEN VIAUD; born in Rochefort, Jan. 15, 1850. He was a French naval officer until 1898 and in 1891 was elected a mem- PIERRE LOTI ber of the French Academy. His works include: "Aziyadé" (1876); "Rarahu" (1880), afterward called "The Marriage of Loti," a romance of Tahiti; "My Brother Yves"; "An Iceland Fisherman" (1886); "Madame Chrysanthème" (1887); "In Morocco" (1890); "The Romance of a Child" (1890); "A Phantom From the East" (1893); ); "Sailor" (1893); and "Jean Berny, Sailor" (1893); "The Desert" (1895); "Galilée" (1895); "India Under the British" (1903); "The Third Youth of Madame Prune" (1905); "The Death of Phile" (1908); "The Daughter of Heaven" (with Judith Gautier, 1913); "On Life's By-Ways" (1914). He resorted to for the purpose of raising money for public purposes. They are still used in this manner in many European countries. In the United States they have been suppressed by legislation for almost a century, though in some States they were still legal as late as 1890, notably in Louisiana. In the latter year they were suppressed there, too, and Congress in the same year prohibited the transmission of lottery tickets or advertisements through the mails, and in 1894 their importation.