Putra seorang komisaris jenderal Angkatan Laut, Larrouy diterima mayor di École Navale pada tahun 1901, menjadi perwira angkatan laut pada tahun 1903, juru bahasa Inggris yang dipatenkan pada tahun 1911, letnan kapal pada tahun 1913, dan pilot kapal udara yang dipatenkan. Setelah ia mengundurkan diri pada tahun 1919 untuk mengabdikan dirinya pada sastra, ia dipromosikan ke pangkat kapten cadangan korvet (1926) kemudian kapten fregat.[2] Seorang petugas Légion d'honneur dan pemegang Croix de guerre 1914–1918, ia menikah di 2nd arrondissement of Paris Denise Decori pada 20 Desember 1916, putri Félix Decori [fr] (1860–1915), seorang pengacara, sekretaris jenderal Kepresidenan Republik (1914), di hadapan presiden Raymond Poincaré, Louis Barthou, Alfred Capus dari Académie française, saksi mempelai wanita, dan Pierre Mille [fr], pendampingnya.
Pada awal abad ke-20 ia menerbitkan novel maritim dan eksotis, beberapa di antaranya agak sukses seperti L'Odyssée d'un transport torpillé (Prix Femina 1917) atau Coup de roulis. Buku-buku ini ditulis dalam semangat perwira angkatan laut lainnya, seperti Pierre Loti, Claude Farrère atau Paul Chack. Dia menampilkan dirinya di Académie française pada 24 Mei 1934 dan memperoleh 2 suara melawan 9 untuk Edmond Jaloux dan 24 untuk Maurice de Broglie, yang terpilih. Dia adalah wakil presiden Société des gens de lettres.
Edisi pertama dari beberapa novel menunjukkan nama samaran René Milan atau huruf "Y". Para bibliofil tahu bahwa dia menandatangani sejumlah besar salinan cetakan dari edisi asli buku-bukunya.
Karya
1912: La race immortelle, roman épique, under the pseudonym René Milan
1915: Les Vagabonds de la gloire (prix Davaine; prix de la Ligue maritime française 1916), first published under the pseudonym René Milan and then reissued under his real name.
I - Campagne d'un croiseur
II - Trois étapes
III - Matelots aériens
1917: L'Odyssée d'un transport torpillé, Éditions Payot, (prix Fémina). Maurice Larrouy wrote this story in four weeks. The publication appeared anonymously in episodes in the "Revue de Paris" in 1917, in the middle of the world conflict. The publisher did not submit the first part to censorship, but the following part was truncated and the third part, deemed dangerous, formally prohibited, the author recounting daily life on board a ship in the form of letters or diary aboard a merchant navy of refueling.
1921: Raphaël Gatouna, Français d'occasion
1923: Gatouna et l'Amour
1924: Le Révolté, a maritime novel that inspired a film in 1938
1926: Leurs Petites majestés, Indochinese novel. The novel tells in a rather light way the embarkation and the cruise on the adviso Roncevaux of a king of the kingdom of Sikar (Indochina peninsula), his majesty Pharnavong, his prime minister Prince Ploum, his first mandarin Bang and his three younger wives. The arrival of this little world on a ship of war, however small, considerably disrupts the life of the Pacha, the lieutenant of Kerquibec, and his two officers, ensigns Goyenne, second officer, and Quintard, not to mention the crew ...
1927: Le marin
1927: Sirènes et tritons, le roman du sous-marin
1928: Trop de Bonheur
1928: Le Trident
1930: Les sept sacrements, roman d'un marin
1931: Eaux brûlantes, Paris, is a narrative of travel from France to Indochina. The first chapter relates the life aboard the steamer André-Lebon during the few weeks of transit. The book then describes French Indochina during the colonial exhibition, in a very "colonially correct" genre. It nevertheless offers a good testimony on this great colony at the time of the apogee of the biggest France. A few pages are devoted to the attempted record air link France-Far East by Joseph Le Brix. He also devotes a chapter to Java.
1933: Le cargo tragique, Paris
1933: La vénus standard, Paris
1934: Eaux glacées, Paris, travel history in Manchuria, Japan, Canada and the United States.
1934: L’Invincible Armada
1936: Arches de discorde
1937: La grande fraude, Paris
Daftar pustaka
Moniot Beaumont, René. "Les écrivains de romans historiques maritimes". Histoire de la littérature maritime. La Découvrance. hlm. 329–331.
