His older (by fourteen years) brother Gustave was a surgeon in the French navy who wrote letters home from Tahiti when little Julien was living in a household composed almost entirely of women, which caused Gustave to worry when he came home on leave that Julien was not being exposed to masculine influences. Born in 1850, Viaud grew up in Rochefort, a port on the west coast of France with a large naval base.
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