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&#;Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.&#; &#; Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne was born on 8 February on Île Feydeau, which was a small man-made island which sits within the boundaries of the town of Nantes on the River Loire in France. It no longer exists as an island as the river was re-filled in the s, but the area has retained the name.
He was the eldest of five siblings and was born in his grandmother’s house at No. 4 Rue Olivier-de-Clisson to parents, Pierre Verne who was a lawyer and Sophie Allote de la Fuÿe, a local woman with Scottish ancestry whose family were shipowners. Paul, Jules’ brother was born in and three sisters, Anna, Mathilde and Marie followed in , and
When he was six years old, Jules was sent to boarding school in Nantes where he would receive inspiration for future stories such as The Mysterious Island and The School for Robinsons from his teacher, Madame Sambin who told her students that her husband was a naval captain and that he had disappear
Jules Verne
Jules Verne was a French novelist and the pioneer of science-fiction. From a young age, he was attracted to the theater and he wrote many librettos for the operas. His imagination was later on taken over by scientific discoveries, researches.
He was born on February 8, in Nantes (France). His father was a lawyer and Jules had no desire to be in the same business as his father and to inherit his workplace.
After finishing his law studies in Paris, Jules decided to dedicate himself to literature. At eleven years of age, he boarded a ship to India but his father stopped him. The love for the sea kept on living in him.
With his novels, he didn't only explore the sea but the Moon, underground and missing continents as well. He wrote, "Voyages Extraordinaires" which contains 63 science-fiction and adventure novels. "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" is also in the book.
He wrote his first novel in and it was named "Five Weeks in a Balloon". A year later he published "From the Earth to the Moons", "Journey to the Center of the Earth", "Adventures of Captain Hatteras".
He died on March 24th,
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Author: Jules Verne
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Jules Verne
Jules Verne was an amazing writer who predicted the science future of the world. Some of the inventions he imagined were created later in his lifetime, but some are still to be invented. He was popular with all kinds of readers: rich, poor, young, old, scientists, artists and rulers. He wrote over 80 books, mostly before , and a few of the things he described were: helicopters, modern weapons, movies with sound, television and rockets.
Jules Gabriel Verne was born on February 8, in Nantes, France. He was the oldest of five children. He had three sisters: Mathilde, Anna and Marie, and one younger brother, Paul. His father was a lawyer and, much like the hero of Around the World in Eighty Days, he was precise about everything. He was known for his honesty. His mother, Sophie Allotte, came from a family of ship builders and sea captains.
Jules and Paul were close all their lives. When they were boys they liked to read travel magazines and invent journeys. They were crazy about boats and taught themselves to sail. When Jules was twelve years old, he found a ship called the "Coralie" that was sailing to the West Indies. Jules paid the cabin boy to take his p
Jules Verne
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Novelist, b. at Nantes, France, ; d. at Amiens, His first literary venture was a little play, Les pailles rompues", which was produced on the stage in the early fifties, but the difficulty he experience in overcoming the ill-will of the theatre managers discouraged him, and he began to publish, in the "Musée des Familles", novelettes after the fashion of Edgar Allan Poe. One of them, "A Drama in the Air", attracted the attention of the public. The subject is this: a madman embarks by mistake in the car of an aeronaut, and while in the air he tries to kill his companion. Verne had discovered his forte and it was his good fortune at this juncture to find in his publisher, Mr. Herzel, a man of sound judgment, who advised him not to waste his strength, but to limit his energies to the kind of novel he seemed to have discovered. Verne followed this advice, and success crowned his talent and strenuous work. Most of his novels have had a vogue that has been de
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