Pacific Literary
p. 85 · Read in the full issue
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A de luxe edition of the previously unpublished memoirs of Queen u, last queen of Tahiti, is to be published soon, according to the Rev. Patrick O'Reilly in a preface in Ernest Salmon's book "Alexandre Salmon et sa femme Ariitaimai".
The book will be illustrated by Jacques Bouillaire. It will un doubtedly be much sought after by Pacific book collectors.
Queen Marau, who died in 1935 at the age of 74, was the wife of Tahiti's last king, Pomare V. The couple were divorced in 1877 soon after Pomare became sovereign.
After Pomare's death in 1890, the French accorded Marau a pension and the privileges of an ex-queen.