JULES See also:

• JULES VERNE (1828-1905)

VERNE (1828-1905)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French author, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• NANTES
• NANTES, EDICT OF

Nantes on the 8th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1828 . After completing his studies at the Nantes lycee, he went to See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris to study for the See also:

• BAR
• BAR (0. Fr. barre, Late Lat. barra, origin unknown)
• BAR, CONFEDERATION OF
• BAR, FRANCOIS DE (1538-1606)
• BAR, THE

bar . About 1848, in See also:

• CONJUNCTION (from Lat. conjungere, to join together)

conjunction with See also:

• MICHEL
• MICHEL, CLAUDE
• MICHEL, FRANCISQUE XAVIER (1809-1887)

Michel Carre, he wrote librettos for two operettas, and in 185o his See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse See also:

• COMEDY

comedy, See also:

• LES

Les Pailles rompues, in which See also:

• ALEXANDRE, NOEL (NATALIS ALEXANDER) (1639-1724)

Alexandre See also:

• DUMAS, ALEXANDRE
• DUMAS, ALEXANDRE [" DUMAS FILS"] (1824-1895)
• DUMAS, GUILLAUME MATHIEU, COUNT (1753-1837)
• DUMAS, JEAN BAPTISTE ANDRE (1800-1884)

Dumas fits had some See also:

• SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share, was produced at the Gymnase . For some years his interests alternated between the See also:

• THEATRE (BEarpov, " a place for seeing," from OeacOae)

theatre and the See also:

• BOURSE (from the Med. Lat. bursa, a purse)

bourse, but some travellers' stories which he wrote for the Musee See also:

• DES

des Families seem to have revealed to him the true direction of his See also:

• TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental

talent —the delineation, viz., of delightfully extravagant voyages and adventures to which cleverly prepared scientific and See also:

• GEOGRAPHICAL

geographical details See also:

• LENT (0. Eng. lenclen, " spring," M. Eng. lenten, lente, lent; cf. Dut. lente, Ger. Lenz, " spring," 0. H. Ger. lenzin, lengizin, lenzo, probably from the same root as " long " and referring to " the lengthening days ")

lent an See also:

• AIR (from an Indo-European root meaning " breathe," " blow ")
• AIR, or ASBEN

air of verisimilitude . Something of the See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind had been done before, after kindred methods, by Cyrano de See also:

• BERGERAC

Bergerac, by See also:

• SWIFT
• SWIFT, JONATHAN (1667—1745)

Swift and See also:

• DEFOE, DANIEL (c. 1.659—1731)

Defoe, and later by See also:

• MAYNE, JASPER (1604-1672)

Mayne See also:

• REID, ROBERT (1862– )
• REID, SIR GEORGE (1841- )
• REID, SIR ROBERT GILLESPIE (184o-19o8)
• REID, SIR WILLIAM (1791-1858)
• REID, THOMAS (1710-1796)
• REID, THOMAS MAYNE (1818-1883)
• REID, WHITELAW (1837- )

Reid . But in his own particular application of plausible scientific apparatus See also:

• VERNE, JULES (1828-1905)

Verne undoubtedly struck out a See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department for himself in the wide See also:

• LITERARY

literary genre of voyages imaginaires . His first success was obtained with Cinq semaines en ballon, which he wrote for Hetzel's Magazin d'See also:

• EDUCATION

Education in 1862, and thenceforward, for a See also:

• QUARTER (through Fr. from Lat. quartarius, fourth part)

quarter of a See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, scarcely a See also:

• YEAR

year passed in which Hetzel did not publish one ormore of his fantastic stories, illustrated generally by pictures of the most lurid and sensational description . The most successful of these romances include: Voyage au centre de la terre (1864); De la terre a la lune (1865); Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (1869); Les Anglais au See also:

• POLE (FAMILY)
• POLE, REGINALD (1500-1558)
• POLE, RICHARD DE LA (d. 1525)
• POLE, WILLIAM (1814—1900)

pole See also:

• NORD

nord (187o); and Voyage autour du monde en quatre-vingts jours, which first appeared in Le Temps in 1872 . The See also:

• ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation of this last (produced with immense success at the See also:

• PORTE, THE SUBLIME (Arab. babi-'ali, the high gate, through the French translation la sublime porte)

Porte St See also:

• MARTIN (Martinus)
• MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
• MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
• MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
• MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
• MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
• MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
• MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
• MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
• MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
• MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)

Martin theatre on the 8th of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1874) and of another excellent See also:

• TALE (O.Eng. talu, number, account, story; the word is common to many Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Zahl, number, Erzahlung, narrative, Du. taal, speech, language)

tale, See also:

• MICHAEL
• MICHAEL (1596-1645)
• MICHAEL (Hebrew Sn,q, " Who is like God? ")

Michael Strogoff (at the See also:

• CHATELET (from Med. Lat. castella)

Chatelet, I88o), both dramas being written in conjunction with Adolphe d'Ennery, proved the most acceptable of Verne's theatrical pieces . The novels were translated into the various See also:

• EUROPEAN

European See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages—and some even into See also:

• JAPANESE

Japanese and Arabic—and had an enormous success in See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England . But after 1877, when he published See also:

• HECTOR

Hector Servadac, a See also:

• ROMANCE

romance of existence upon a See also:

• COMET (Gr. Koµieiis, long-haired)

comet, the writer's invention began to show signs of fatigue (his See also:

• KINGDOM

kingdom had been invaded in different directions and at different times by such writers as R . M .

Ballantyne, Rider See also:

• HAGGARD, HENRY RIDER (1856– )

Haggard and H . G . See also:

• WELLS
• WELLS, CHARLES JEREMIAH (1798?–1879)
• WELLS, DAVID AMES (1828—1898)
• WELLS, HERBERT GEORGE (1866— )
• WELLS, SIR THOMAS SPENCER, 1ST BART

Wells), and he even committed himself, somewhat unguardedly, to very gloomy predictions as to the future of the novel . Jules Verne's own novels, however, will certainly See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long continue to delight readers by See also:

• REASON (Lat. ratio, through French raison)

reason of their sparkling See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style, their picturesque verve—apparently inherited directly from Dumas—their amusing and See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good-natured See also:

• NATIONAL

national caricatures, and the ingenuity with which the love See also:

• ELEMENT (Lat. elementum)

element is either subordinated or completely excluded . M . Verne, who was always extremely popular in society, divided his See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time for the most See also:

• PART

part between Paris, his See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home at See also:

• AMIENS

Amiens and his yacht . He was a member of the See also:

• LEGION (Lat. legio)

Legion of See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

Honour, and several of his romances were crowned by the French See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy, but he was never enrolled among its members . He died at Amiens on the 24th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 1905 . His See also:

• BROTHER

brother, See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

Paul Verne, contributed to the Transactions of the French Alpine See also:

• CLUB (connected with " clump ")

Club, and wrote an See also:

• ASCENSION
• ASCENSION, FEAST OF THE

Ascension du Mont See also:

• BLANC, (JEAN JOSEPH CHARLES) LOUIS (1811-1882)
• BLANC, MONT

Blanc for his brother's collection of Voyages extraordinaires in 1874 .