Jules Verne

See also: Verne

Jules Verne , born the February 8th 1828 with Nantes, dead the March 24th 1905 with Amiens, is a writer French, including one most of work is devoted to novels of adventures and Science-fiction (called time of Jules Verne Science fiction novel). The year 2005 was declared “year Jules Verne”, at the time of the centenary of died of the author.

Biography

Youths

Jules Verne was born in Nantes, in the district of the island Feydeau, the February 8th 1828. He is the son of Pierre Verne (originating in Provins), following the occupation of Avoué, and Sophie Allote of Fuÿe, a Nantes middle-class family navigators and ship-owners. Jules Verne is the elder one of an family of five children, including/understanding his Paul brother (1829 - 1897) and three sisters: Anna, born in 1836, Mathilde, born in 1839, and Marie, born in 1842. It makes stays with Brains.

The legend affirms that in 1839, at the 11 years age, the small Jules would have embarked on a long mail bound for the India S, in the capacity as foam. His/her father would then have recovered it in-extremis with Paimbœuf. It is said that Jules Verne would have acknowledged that it had left to bring back a collar of coral to his cousin, Caroline Tronson, with which it was in love. Harshly tancé by his father, he would have promised not to travel more but in rêve.
But it is only one legend enjolivée by family imagination. In his Memories of childhood and youth , one learns that it is only escaped, is ridden on board a sailing ship, that it explored it, is turned the rudder, etc, it in the absence of a guard. What will be worth the reprobation of the captain to him.

Literary beginnings

His/her father wants to make of him a lawyer. He makes his studies of Rhétorique and Philosophie to the college of Nantes, then studies of Droit after the baccalaureat. He starts to write, of the poems, a Tragédie in worms. He will finish his right to Paris in November 1848, much more interested by the Théâtre. It become acquainted there with Alexandre Dumas, which agrees to assemble its part the broken Straws , in 1850, in its Theater-history , where she is played there twelve times. In spite of the quite relative success of work, Jules Verne, who has just finished his right, refuses to succeed his father with his load of Avoué. He attends the National library, impassioning himself for the Science and its most recent discoveries and binds with old a Explorateur, Jacques Arago, become blind.

It publishes its first news in the review the Museum of the families: First ships of the Mexican navy and a Drama in the airs in 1851. In 1852, Jules Verne is engaged as secretary with the Theater-lyric . It publishes Martin Paz , Maître Zacharius , a Wintering in the ices , as well as the part the Castles in California and continues its theatrical work, with, in particular, Colin-Maillard , a Opérette written with his friend Michel Carré on a music of Aristide Hignard. Represented in 1853, work has a relative success (forty representations).

In 1856, it becomes acquainted with his future wife, Honorine Morel, a amiénoise of twenty-six years, widow of Fraysne de Viane, and already mother of two children. The single child of Jules Verne, Michel, is born the August 3rd 1861.

The extraordinary voyages

In 1862, Jules Verne submits to the editor Pierre-Jules Hetzel (1814 - 1886) its Romance Five weeks in balloon which appears in 1863, being an immense success, beyond the French borders. It then signs with Pierre-Jules Hetzel a Contrat which binds it for 20 years with the editor, in which it is committed providing Romance S in particular for the review the Store of education and recreation intended for the Jeunesse. It is in this Journal that the Adventures of the captain Hatteras will appear before being published in Romance. In fact, Verne works during forty years with his extraordinary Voyages which will count sixty-four volumes. In 1863, always, Jules Verne written Paris with the XX {{E}} century , which will appear only in 1994.

In 1864, Jules Verne devotes a work to Edgar Poe ( Edgar Poe and its works ), it publishes the Romance S the Adventures of the captain Hatteras and Voyage in the center of the Earth , leaves its use of stockbroker, and moves with Auteuil. The March 16th 1867, in company of his/her brother Paul, it embarks on the Great Eastern with Liverpool for the the United States, it will draw from its crossing the Romance a floating city (1870). Jules Verne buys his boat the Saint-Michel in 1868, Chaloupe of fishing arranged for the pleasure, it will make his study of it.

Mobilized like coastguard with the Crotoy during the war of 1870, Jules Verne continues however to write. Around the years 1870 - 1872 he lived during one short period in Suisse in the town of Sion to the street of the church NR. 7 as a tenant at Pierre Heanni. It settles with Amiens, birthplace of his wife, in 1872, publishes the Round the world tour in eighty days , acquires of the Saint-Michel II , in 1874. It gives a sumptuous ball dressed up to Amiens as 1877, with the participation of his friend Nadar, who was used as model with the Michel Ardan , hero of its Romance S Of the Earth to the Moon and Around the moon . From June to August 1878, Jules Verne sails of Lisbon to Algiers on the Saint-Michel III , then in Scotland, Norway and Ireland in 1880. It makes large a tower of the the Mediterranean in company of his wife in 1884.

Last years

In 1886, the nephew of Jules Verne, Gaston, come seems it to require money of him, shoots two balls from revolver at the writer, which wound it with the legs and will cause him a final boitery. In 1888, Jules Verne is elected at the municipal council of Amiens on a republican list (left moderate), it will sit fifteen years there. It is reached of cataract in 1900.

The beginning of 1903, Jules Verne chaired the group Espérantiste of Amiens. Burning defender of this very young international language, it promises with his friends to write a novel where it would describe the merits of the Esperanto. Died prematurely, its book will not be completed. The draft will be taken again by his/her Michel son, but final work ( the Astonishing Adventure of the mission Barsac ) will not refer to the Esperanto.

Patient of diabetes, Jules Verne will die out the March 24th 1905 with Amiens in his house of 44, boulevard Longueville (today Jules-Verne boulevard). He is buried with the Cimetière of the Madeleine in Amiens.
Several books of Jules Verne will appear after his death, published by his/her son Michel Verne, who will take the responsability to alter certain manuscripts.

Heritage

Jules Verne leaves behind him a rich work of an extraordinary creativity. It is one of the first authors to be mixed with as much success science fiction, ventures and fantastic. Its interest for science and the fact that it approaches in its novels of the topics which will be concretized in the current of the 20th century (voyage on the moon, submarine, etc) confer the statute of visionary to him. Its novels will be frequently adapted to the Cinéma, their account with large spectacle lending itself perfectly to the productions Hollywood iennes. Its characters are icons of imaginary popular (such Phileas Fogg, the Capitaine Nemo or Michel Strogoff).

Work

Romance S

If one looks closely the way in which the principal novels of Jules Verne are made up, one notices that its novels are in fact made up of three closely bound parts, which makes their richness:

  • a geographical voyage,

  • a moral voyage,
  • a scientific voyage.

Collections of news

Tale of fantasy

  • 1854 : Main Zacharius or the clock and watch maker who had lost his heart

Quotation

“When I described them like realities, these things were already with half discovered. I simply drew a Fiction which became later on a fact, and my goal, by it making, was not to prophesy, but to spread in youth a knowledge as regards Géographie under an appearance as interesting as I could compose it!!! ”

Cité by Patrick Poivre d' Arvor, in the world according to Jules Verne .
PPDA adds (the first nobody designates Jules Verne)

“But I must acknowledge that I believed, as a faithful reader of Auguste Count and in holding good of the Positivisme, in the Progrès, the capacity of the Science to answer waitings, with the ideals of the Homme S.I wanted to return of it account, very thoroughly, hour per hour, Time zone after time zone, in a very detailed calculation of the Temps which probably adds to my supposed science an additional element of precision and which in has Impressionné, me am said, more one! ”

Jules Verne in the books

  • By reading again Jules Verne. Another glance on the Extraordinary Voyages. Test, of Lionel Dupuy (March 2005).
  • Jules Verne, the man and ground. Mysterious geography of the Extraordinary Voyages: Test, of Lionel Dupuy (May 2006): study of the influence of the work of Elisee Recluse on that of Jules Verne.
  • Olivier and Patrick Poivre d' Arvor, the world according to Jules Verne , editions France Leisures, 2004.
  • Jules Verne, the Odyssey of the Earth ”, Magazine Géo, Out of the ordinary n°11, March 2004.
  • Claude Faber, Jules Verne: the novel of the Earth . , Milan Editions, coll “essential Milan” n° 255, 2005. 63 p., 18 cm
  • F. Angelier, Dictionary Jules Verne: memory, characters, places, works , Pygmalion editions, 2006,1196 p., 16x6x25
  • Jules Verne avec the new correspondence of Jules Verne with his famille , Lyon, Edition Manufacture , 1988, p. 22.
  • Jakubowski Marc, Jules Verne, the Work of a Life, guides collector vernien , the Sphinx of the ices, Lexy.2004. Work on the boardings Hetzel (Descriptions, councils).
  • Olivier Bleys, Jules Verne , New world ED., coll “small magazines”, Paris, 2005
  • Michel Greenhouses, Jean-Paul Dekiss, Jules Verne, science and the contemporary man , ED. the Apple tree, Paris, 2003
  • Jean-Paul Dekiss, Jules Verne: a human planet gear , Textual, coll “Passion”, Paris, 2005 (Prize winner of the Roberval Price 2005)
  • Jean-Paul Dekiss, Jules Verne the enchanter , ED. the Cat-like one, Paris, 1999
  • Philippe of Cotardière (to dir.), Jules Verne: science with imaginary the , Larousse, Paris, 2004
  • Marcel More, the very curious Jules Verne. The problem of the father in the " Extraordinaires" voyages; , With a note of Jean Paulhan and Patrick Mauries, Paris, the Walker, 2005,273p.
  • Jean Chesneaux, Jules Verne, a glance on the world , Bayard, 2001
  • Olivier Bleys, Jules Verne , coll small magazines, New World 2005.

See too

Related articles

External bonds

  • virtual Exposure devoted to Jules Verne (site of the national museum of the Navy)
  • scientific and literary File on Jules Verne (institutional site)

  • Literary analyzes of the novels of Jules Verne

  • Jules Verne: teaching resources

Accessible works on Internet

Today in the public domain, of many works of Jules Verne are freely available on Internet, grace in particular to the site of the Association of Universal Bibliophiles ABU, the electronic Library of Quebec and the numeric library of the National library of Gallica France. Many works are available in French in the Gutenberg Project. Free expression: You will be able to find in the Bibliothèque section some ebooks free.

  • On the library of Quebec (works of Jules Verne to format pdf).
  • Its books on Ebooks free and free
  • CD of collection: Jules Verne Graphical interface (with format pdf, for any platform) allowing the consultation and/or reading of the 69 novels, 21 news (and others) of Jules VERNE, published between 1845 and 1914 (and more…).
  • the interface on line | Ref.: Rene Paul.
  • illustrations: on the site of Zvi | the Gate of Frederic | the site of Bernhard | Ref.: Rene Paul.
  • integral Reading of the “Round the world tour in 80 days”
  • integral Reading of the “Voyage in the center of the ground”

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