Jules Verne

Jules Verne was born in Nantes on 8 February 1828, the son of an attorney. Sent to Paris to study law, he became passionate about the theatre there and worked for a time as a stockbroker. In 1862, he presented a first novel to the publisher Hetzel and committed to supplying him with two volumes a year, for a series of travel and adventure novels. Wounded in 1886 by a nephew, he remained lame as a result. Settled in Amiens in 1871, he was elected a municipal councillor there in 1888 and died there on 24 March 1905.

In the catalogue 2

• NovelTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeasVingt mille lieues sous les mersJules Verne · 1870Literature
• NovelAround the World in Eighty DaysLe Tour du monde en quatre-vingts joursJules Verne · 1873LiteraturePublic domain