Louys
PIERRE, born in 1870, was educated at the Lycée Janson de Sailly.
He made a number of journeys to north Africa and founded at 19 the review "La Conque,” to which Swinburne, Verlaine, Leconte de Lisle, and Maeterlinck contributed. His novel "Aphrodite," from which ten plays and operas have been drawn in various languages, reached a sale of 320,000 copies. M. Louys's works are: "Astarte" (1892); "Les Chanes. sons de Bilitis" (1895); "Aphrodite" (1896); "La Femme et le Pantin" (1898); "Les Aventures du Roi Pausole" (1901); "Sanguines" (1903); "Archipel" (1906); "Psyché" (1909).
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