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Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.
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culture · French writer (1828–1905) · novelist · playwright · poet · children's writer · writer · science fiction writer · Esperantist · futurist · also Jules Verne, Julius Verne, Jules Gabriel Verne, Verne
Born 8 February 1828 · Died 24 March 1905 · Q33977
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2026· 19 entries
The Economic Times: Quote of the Day by Jules Verne: 'Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself...'-
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ArchDaily: Galería de Jules-Verne School / Barré Lambot Architectes - 8
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Gamereactor UK: Big news for Disneyland Paris, the original Space Mountain inspired by Jules Verne will be back
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airmagique.net: Goodbye, Star Wars. Hello, Jules Verne. De la Terre à la Lune is Coming Back!
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The Stage: ArounD the WorlD in 80 ToyS review at Edinburgh Fringe: Jules Verne’s story told with mechanical toys
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The Economic Times: Top Motivational Quote by Jules Verne: 'Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and...' - Here's why people should change the way they look at unexpected ...
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Faro de Vigo: 2 millones de euros para conmemorar a Jules Verne en Vigo
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Published video “Chapitre 4”.
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Published video “Chapitre 5”.
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Published video “Chapitre 3”.
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Published video “Chapitre 2”.
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Published video “Chapitre 6”.
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Published video “Chapitre 1”.
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Published video “Chapitre 7”.
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Published video “Teil 43 - Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen”.
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Published video “Teil 4 - Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen”.
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Published video “Teil 35 - Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen”.
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Upon the splashdown return of Artemis II from the historic lunar flyby around the Moon back to Earth and the first test flight of
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2025· 1 entry
UPI: 'Nautilus': Jules Verne-inspired series to premiere in June
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2014· 1 entry
gizmodo: How Jules Verne Helped Invent the Helicopter
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2005· 1 entry
Variety: Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island
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1999· 1 entry
Awarded Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (1999).
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1994· 2 entries
“s next submission, Paris in the Twentieth Century, believing its pessimistic view of the future and its condemnation of technological progress were too subversive for a family magazine. (The manuscript, believed lost for some time after Verne”
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And 1989, respectively) and for projects left unfinished at his death (many of which would be posthumously adapted or rewritten for publication by his son Michel)
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1989· 1 entry
Verne's great-grandson discovered his ancestor's as-yet-unpublished novel Paris in the Twentieth Century, which was subsequently published in 1994
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1969· 1 entry
And at splashdown of the Artemis II, the first crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit since Apollo 17 in 1972
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1919· 1 entry
Michel Verne published The Barsac Mission (French: L'Étonnante Aventure de la Mission Barsac), whose original drafts contained references to Esperanto, a language that his father had been very interested in
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1905· 17 entries
Died 1905-03-24.
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“Pan raczy żartować!– Anglik nigdy nie żartuje, gdy chodzi o rzecz równie poważną, jak zakład.”
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“tout ce qu'un homme est capable d'imaginer, d'autres hommes sont capables de le réaliser”
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“Lepiej nie szukać okazji, niż ją prowokować.”
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“Łatwo jest nazwać szaleńcem kogoś, kto myśli inaczej niż ty!”
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“Nigdy nie traćcie okazji do największego wysiłku.– Nigdy nie pogardzajcie wysiłkiem, bo każdy jest pożyteczny.By stosować te zasady w praktyce, mocne muszą być ciało i duch.”
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“Oni darowali ci życie, kiedy zasługiwałeś na śmierć! Przecież nie odebrano ci całego człowieczeństwa! Uczyniwszy tyle zła, musisz zwrócić się ku dobru! Pomyśl, do jak okropnej zbrodni przyłożyłbyś rękę!”
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“Szkoda, że nie wieje przez cały czas!– Byłoby znacznie gorzej, gdyby zaczął wiać w przeciwnym kierunku!”
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“Wielokrotnie przelewał cudzą krew, a teraz jego krew płynęła, by oczyścić jego przeszłość…”
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“Wtedy najmłodsi uklęknęli pod Krzyżem Południa, jak to czynili przed krzyżem w kaplicy, i z całej duszy modlili się do wszechmogącego Stwórcy tych niebiańskich cudów, by zechciał dodać im nadziei.”
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“Za żadną cenę nie powinniśmy się rozdzielać! Musimy pozostać razem, albo jesteśmy zgubieni!!”
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“Człowiek stworzony jest do towarzystwa, a nie do samotności, która jest matką rozpaczy.”
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“Gdy serce walczy z rozsądkiem, ten ostatni rzadko zwycięża.”
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“Im mniej człowiek ma wygód, tym mniej potrzeb. A im mniej kto potrzebuje, tym jest szczęśliwszy.”
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“Kłamstwa odznaczają się właśnie dokładnością szczegółów.”
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“Przeszłość już minęła, lecz przyszłość należy do nas.”
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“Jednakże Opatrzność uznała bez wątpienia karę tego biedaka za niewystarczającą, czuł bowiem, że zaczyna dziczeć.”
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1892· 1 entry
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1892).
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1888· 1 entry
Entered politics and was elected town councillor of Amiens, where he championed several improvements during the fifteen years he served in office
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1872· 1 entry
Awarded Montyon Prize (1872).
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1870· 1 entry
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1870).
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1869· 1 entry
With William Lackland's translation of Five Weeks in a Balloon (originally published in 1863), and continued steadily throughout Verne's lifetime, with publishers and hired translators often working in great haste to rus
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1867· 2 entries
Awarded Montyon Prize (1867).
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Verne bought a small boat, the Saint-Michel, which he successively replaced with the Saint-Michel II and the Saint-Michel III as his financial situation improved
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1866· 1 entry
Hetzel publicly announced his literary and educational ambitions for Verne's novels by saying in a preface that Verne's works would form a novel sequence called the Voyages extraordinaires (Extraordinary Voyages or Extra
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1862· 1 entry
Through their mutual acquaintance Alfred de Bréhat, Verne came into contact with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel, and submitted to him the manuscript of his developing novel, then called Voyage en Ballon
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1861· 3 entries
A second complimentary voyage in 1861 took Hignard and Verne to Stockholm, from where they traveled to Christiania and through Telemark.
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Took Hignard and Verne to Stockholm, from where they traveled to Christiania and through Telemark
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Verne left Hignard in Denmark to return in haste to Paris, but missed the birth on 3 August 1861 of his only biological son, Michel.
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1859· 1 entry
The journey, Verne's first trip outside France, deeply impressed him, and upon his return to Paris he fictionalized his recollections to form the backbone of a semi-autobiographical novel, Backwards to Britain (written in the autumn and winter of 1859–1860 and not published until 1989).
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1857· 1 entry
With his financial situation finally looking promising, Verne won the favor of Morel and her family, and the couple were married on 10 January 1857.
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1856· 2 entries
Verne's father was initially dubious but gave in to his son's requests for approval in November 1856.
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When he had a serious quarrel with Pitre-Chevalier and refused to continue contributing (a refusal he would maintain until 1863, when Pitre-Chevalier died, and the magazine went to new editorship)
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1852· 2 entries
When Verne's short story A Voyage in a Balloon (1851) was published in the American journal Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art in a translation by Anne T
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Two new pieces from Verne appeared in the Musée des familles: Martin Paz, a novella set in Lima, which Verne wrote in 1851 and published 10 July through 11 August 1852, and Les Châteaux en Californie, ou, Pierre qui roul
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1851· 2 entries
When Verne suffered the first of four attacks of facial paralysis
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Verne met with a fellow writer from Nantes, Pierre-Michel-François Chevalier (known as "Pitre-Chevalier"), the editor-in-chief of the magazine Musée des familles (The Family Museum)
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1849· 1 entry
With Alexandre Dumas through the mutual acquaintance of a celebrated chirologist of the time, the Chevalier d'Arpentigny
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1848· 1 entry
Studied at University of Paris (1847–1848).
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1847· 1 entry
Verne's father sent him to Paris, primarily to begin his studies in law school, and secondarily (according to family legend) to distance him temporarily from Nantes
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1846· 1 entry
Studied at lycée Georges-Clemenceau (1844–1846).
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1840· 1 entry
The Vernes moved again to a large apartment at No
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1839· 1 entry
At the age of 11, Verne secretly procured a spot as cabin boy on the three-mast ship Coralie with the intention of traveling to the Indies and bringing back a coral necklace for his cousin Caroline
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1836· 1 entry
Verne went on to École Saint‑Stanislas, a Catholic school suiting the pious religious tastes of his father
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1834· 1 entry
At the age of six, Verne was sent to boarding school at 5 Place du Bouffay in Nantes
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1829· 1 entry
The Verne family moved some hundred metres away to No
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1828· 1 entry
Born 1828-02-08.
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