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Verne, Jules

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ISBN 10: 1409953920 ISBN 13: 9781409953920

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Jules Verne (1828-1905) est un �crivain fran�ais, dont une grande partie de l'oeuvre est consacr�e � des romans d'aventures et de science-fiction (appel�s du temps de Jules Verne romans d'anticipation) comme Le Voyage au Centre de la Terre (1864) et Vingt Mille Lieues Sous les Mers (1869). Il fait ses �tudes de rh�torique et de philosophie au Lyc�e de Nantes, (actuel Lyc�e Cl�menceau) puis des �tudes de droit apr�s le baccalaur�at. Il commence � �crire, des po�mes, une trag�die en vers. Il va terminer son droit � Paris en novembre 1848, bien plus int�ress� par le th��tre. Il y fait la connaissance d'Alexandre Dumas, qui accepte de monter sa pi�ce Les Pailles Rompues, en 1850, dans son Th��tre-Historique, o� elle y est jou�e douze fois. Jules Verne publie ses premi�res nouvelles dans la revue Le Mus�e des Familles: Les Premiers Navires de la Marine Mexicaine et Un Drame dans les Airs en 1851. En 1852, Il est engag� comme secr�taire au Th��tre- Lyrique. Il publie Ma�tre Zacharius (1854), Un Hivernage dans les Glaces (1855) et Martin Paz (1874).

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About the Author:

Jules Gabriel Verne was born in 1828, in Nantes, France. Jules' parents were of a seafaring tradition, one factor which influenced his writings. As a boy, Jules Verne ran off to be a cabin boy on a merchant ship, but he was caught and returned to his parents. In 1847 Jules was sent to study law in Paris. While there, however, his passion for theatre grew. Later in 1850, Jules Verne's first play was published. His father was outraged when he heard that Jules was not going to continue law, so he discontinued the money he was giving him to pay for his expenses in Paris. This forced Verne to make money by selling his stories. After spending many hours in Paris libraries studying geology, engineering, and astronomy, Jules Verne published his first novel Five Weeks in a Balloon. Soon he started writing novels such as Journey to the Center of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Because of the popularity of these and other novels, Jules Verne became a very rich man. In 1876, he bought a large yacht and sailed around Europe. The last novel before Jules Verne's death was The Invasion of the Sea. Jules Verne died in the city of Amiens in 1905.

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