A Monument to an Adventurer's Fantasies.

The article reports that a French government-backed project is going to restore the family home of Julien Viaud, who wrote under the name Pierre Loti in Rochefort, France. It states that the project is expected to cost as much as $13 million, in which home and its contents will be cleaned and repaired, and the museum will be expanded. It mentions that the most important item in the monument is an Ottoman tombstone, that is why the state is willing to spend money to rescue it.