Jules Gabriel Verne
Biography Jules Gabriel Vern- French geographer and writer, a classic of adventure literature, one of the founders of science fiction. Member of the French Geographical Society. According to UNESCO statistics, the book by Jules Verne in second place on the transferability of the world, second only to the works of Agatha Christie.
Family Father - a lawyer, Pierre Verne, leading its origin from a family of lawyers Provence. Mother - Sophie Nanina. Henriette de la Allot Fuÿe, a Scottish-born Briton. Jules Verne was the first child of five. After he was born, Brother Paul and three sisters: Anna, Mathilde and Marie.
Personal life Jules Verne's wife was Honorine de Vian. She was a widow and had two children from his first marriage. May 20, 1856, Jules Verne went to Amiens to the wedding of his friend, for the first time and met Honorine. January 10, 1857 they were married and settled in Paris, where Verne spent some years. Four years later, August 3, 1861, Honorine gave birth to his son Michel, their only child. Son engaged cinema and filmed several works of his father
Creation Jules Verne imbued with romance science, faith in the good progress reverence for the power of thought. Sympathetically describes it and the struggle for national liberation. Total Jules Verne wrote 66 novels, including unfinished, published at the end of the XX century, as well as more than 20 novels and short stories, 30 plays, several documentaries and scientific works. In the novels of Jules Verne readers found not only enthusiastic description of the technology, travel, but also bright and vivid images of noble heroes. Jules Verne was not "armchair" writer, he has traveled around the world, including their yachts.
Works "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1864) "The Adventures of Captain Hatteras" (1865) "From the Earth to the Moon" (1865) "Children of Captain Grant" (1867) "Around the Moon" (1869) "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" (1870) "Around the World in 80 Days" (1872) "Mysterious Island" (1874) "Michael Strogoff" (1876) "Captain at Fifteen" (1878) "Robur the Conqueror" (1886)
Travel In 1859 he traveled to England Scotland. In 1861 traveled to Scandinavia. In 1867, Verne made a transatlantic cruise on the steamer "Great Eastern" in the United States, traveled to New York to Niagara Falls. In 1878, Jules Verne made a large trip on a yacht 'Saint-Michel III » the Mediterranean, visiting Lisbon, Tangier, Gibraltar and Algeria. In 1879, on the yacht "Saint-Michel III» Jules Verne once again visited England Scotland. In 1881, Jules Verne went on his yacht in the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark. Then he planned to walk to St. Petersburg, but this prevented the severe storm. In 1884, Jules Verne made his last great journey. To "Saint. Michel III» he traveled to Algeria, Malta, Italy and other Mediterranean countries.
The last 20 years of his life Amiens house with a tower, where he lived and worked for Jules Verne March 9, 1886 Jules Verne was seriously wounded in the ankle by a shot from a revolver mentally ill nephew Gaston is true, the son of Paul and travel had to forget forever. In 1892, the writer became a Knight of the Legion of Honor. Shortly before his death Verne blind, but it just continued to dictate the book. Writer died on March 24, 1905 from diabetes. After his death, left a card file writer including over 20 thousand notebooks with information from all areas of human knowledge.
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