René Milan

René Milan was the pseudonym of Maurice Larrouy, a French naval officer and writer born on June 9, 1882. He resigned from the navy in 1919 to focus on literature, producing maritime and exotic adventure novels such as La race immortelle (1912) and Les Vagabonds de la gloire (1915), with later works like the Prix Femina-winning L'Odyssée d'un transport torpillé (1917) under his real name.Maurice Larrouy (writer) Wikipedia), WorldCat Entities