Emile-Auguste Danrit

Driant, a famous French military strategist and politician, died heroically before Verdun during World War I. Like a 19th-century Tom Clancy, Driant also wrote a number of very popular “techno-thrillers.” In “Undersea Odyssey” (1908), Driant tackles the use of the modern 200-ton submarines which had just been introduced in the French Navy a few years earlier.