Jules Verne Facts
Jules Verne Facts
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Jules Verne wrote a historical adventure story titled The First Ships of the Mexican Navy, which was published in 1851 in the magazine The Family Museum (Musee des familles). |
Jules Verne gave up his law career to write, against the wishes of his father. |
Jules Verne became friends with a blind geographer and explorer Jacques Arago, who introduced Jules to travel writing. |
Jules Verne published two pieces in 1852 in Musee de famille, a novella and a one-act play. |
Jules Verne published Master Zacharius and A Winter Amid the Ice in 1854, again in the magazine Musee de famille. |
Jules had a falling out with the publisher of Musee de famille and stopped contributing work until 1863. |
In 1856 Jules Verne met Honorine de Viane Morel, a young widow with two young children. They married in 1857. |
Jules Verne took a sea voyage in 1858, and again in 1861, further inspiring his adventure writing. |
Jules' son Michel was born on August 3rd, 1861. |
Jules Verne's first published novel was Five Weeks in a Balloon, a book he wrote about a travel adventure across Africa. It was published on January 31st, 1863 by the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel, who had already published Victor Hugo, Balzac, and George Sand, acclaimed writers of the time. |
Most of Jules Verne's novels were published first in serialized form in Hetzel's magazine Magasin. They then went on to be published in book form. |
Jules Verne's second novel was The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, published in serial form from 1864 to 1865, and in book form in 1866. |
Journey to the Center of the Earth was published in 1864. |
Jules Verne bought his own ship and began to travel with his wife, sailing to different ports around the world. |
Hetzel and Verne fought over Captain Nemo's character and background in the book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. A compromise was made and it was published in 1869. |
Jules Verne's success continued with several new books including The Adventures of a Special Correspondent (1872), and Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen (1878). |
In 1886 Gaston - Verne's favorite nephew, tried to kill him. He was suffering from mental illness and was sent to a mental institution. |
Jules Verne continued to travel, and write, publishing Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon in 1881 and Master of the World in 1904. |
Jules Verne died on March 24th, 1905, at the age of 77. |
Jules Verne predicted several technological advances years ahead of their invention, including the powered submarine, glass skyscrapers, calculators, a worldwide communications network and high speed trains. |
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