The purpose of this article is to examine the exoticism of China of Pierre Loti and his particular opinion on exoticism, based on his Les Derniers Jours de Pekin (The last days of Peking, 1902). As a French novelist and naval officer, Loti, during the autumn of 1900, goes to China as part of the international expedition sent to control the Boxer Rebellion; he stays there in Peking about 28 days and visits several palaces in 4 towns of Peking, devastated during the rebellion; in Les Derniers Jours de Peking, he describes what he saw then after the siege of Beijing by the Europeans. For Loti, Peking is “a city of cut paper-work and a gold city.”; to penetrate the city, it must break through numerous forts, gates, walls thoroughly closed with gigantesque locks; so the approach to the city is strictly interdicted to any foreigners; but as a naval officer, Loti enjoys strangeness in penetrating Peking, city of interdiction, as knights searching for the Holy Graal; so Loti’s exoticism of China is excited and satisfied. And as exoticism is a taste to search for strangeness, for Loti, the more strangeness he discovers, the more exoticism is excited and satisfied; thus to excite and satisfy his exoticism of other cultures, it is necessary to keep the cultures isolated as much as possible; contact with other cultures results in mixture among them; it makes disappear the differences among them and their own aspects; definitively it reduces their ‘coefficient of exoticism.’ For the reason, Loti is hostile to the mixture among cultures; for the reason, he feels uneasy about the upcoming results of the “mission civilisatrice” being executed by Europeans in China in the Imperialist Era; those results will reduce the ‘coefficient of exoticism’ of China, “one of the last refuges of the unknown and the marvels on Earth.”