Jules Verne Biography

Jules Verne, Author

Occup.	Author
From	France
Born	February 8, 1828
Died	March 24, 1905
Aged	77 years

Jules Verne was born upon February 8, 1828, in Nantes, France, to a prosperous family members. His dad, Pierre Verne, was a legal representative, and his mommy, Sophie, was from a family of shipbuilders as well as skipper, which would later serve as an inspiration for Verne's works.

Verne had a very early interest for composing as well as storytelling. He was an exceptional trainee, particularly in mathematics and also science, and enrolled in legislation college in Paris, where he started composing plays and also tales. However, his passion for literary works soon overtook his legal researches, as well as he left college to seek a writing occupation.

In 1850, Verne wed Honorine de Viane Morel, and the couple had a kid, Michel, in 1861. Verne's writing career started in earnest in the 1850s, with his first published work being a play labelled "Les Pailles rompues" (The Broken Straws). He then counted on composing stories, with his initial major success being "Five Weeks in a Balloon" (1863), which tells the tale of an exploration throughout Africa in a hot air balloon.

Verne took place to become one of one of the most popular as well as respected authors of his time, producing numerous works that explored themes of scientific research, technology, and experience. He is widely considered as the daddy of sci-fi and also is best known for his "Voyages Extraordinaires" series, that includes such classics as "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1864), "From the Earth to the Moon" (1865), as well as "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" (1870).

Verne's jobs were usually based upon the latest clinical knowledge of the moment, and he had an eager passion in the advancements being made in technology as well as exploration. His stories were also instilled with a sense of wonder and also a belief in the opportunities of human achievement, which made them greatly popular with viewers.

Regardless of his success, Verne was a reasonably private individual and also maintained a low account throughout his life. He suffered from anxiety as well as was known to be deeply influenced by personal catastrophes, consisting of the fatality of his son Michel in 1886. Verne himself passed away on March 24, 1905, in Amiens, France, at the age of 77. He is appreciated today as one of the most significant writers of his time, whose works remain to captivate viewers and also inspire generations of authors as well as researchers.

Our collection contains 9 quotes who is written / told by Jules, under the main topics: Nature - Pet.

Related authors: Anne McCaffrey (Author)

Jules Verne Famous Works:

1864 Journey to the Center of the Earth (Novel)
1865 From the Earth to the Moon (Novel)
1870 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Novel)
1873 Around the World in Eighty Days (Novel)
1874 The Mysterious Island (Novel)

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9 Famous quotes by Jules Verne

"We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer"

"We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones"

"The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides"

"The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?"

"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth"

"On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!"

"Liberty is worth paying for"

"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through"

"Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls"