Claude Farrère

Claude Farrère (French pronunciation: [klod faʁɛʁ]), pseudonym of Frédéric-Charles Bargone (French pronunciation: [fʁedeʁik ʃaʁl baʁɡɔn]; 27 April 1876, in Lyon – 21 June 1957, in Paris), was a French Navy officer and writer. Many of his novels are based in exotic locations such as Istanbul, Saigon, or Nagasaki.

One of his novels, Les Civilisés, about life in French colonial Indochina, won the third Prix Goncourt for 1905. He was elected to a chair at the Académie Française on 26 March 1935, in competition with Paul Claudel, partly thanks to lobbying efforts by Pierre Benoit.