Pavilion rebuilt in tribute to poet

A pavilion in which French Nobel laureate in literature Saint-John Perse (1887-1975) finished writing his signature work, Anabase, has been reconstructed, almost a century after the writer first arrived in Beijing.

The pavilion in western Beijing has been rebuilt under his name and is set to serve as a symbol of Sino-French friendship and literary exchange.

Saint-John Perse was the pen name of French poet and diplomat Alexis Leger, who lived in China from 1916 to 1921.