CURIOUS BEQUEST.
AUTHOR’S FEAR OF TOURISTS
sV CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGtt'J LONDON, Aug. 22.
The Paris correspondent of the Morning Post reports the interesting settlement of a controversy, due to the persistent refusal to allow visitors to enter the grounds on the lie d’Oleron, near Rochefort, t:> see the grave of Pierre Loti.
Loti had an intense fear that his grave would become the haunt of tourists. A passage from his wi’j lias bow been published, iu which he states : ‘T wish to be buried forgotten by all the nrofanely curious. I beg that norhng be said over my grave at the funeral but the Lord’s Prayer, and that the public never he allowed -to* visit the grave, but twice yearly a dozen persons,, vhose names are approved by my sor. >r heirs.”
Pierre Loti (Louis Marie Julien Viand 1, a captain in the French navy was the ■ author of many novels, and was a member of the French Academy
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 24 August 1925, Page 5
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