Jules Verne
(1828-1905)

Died aged 77

Jules Gabriel Verne (/vɜːrn/; French: [ʒyl gabʁijɛl vɛʁn]; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). His novels, always well documented, are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account the technological advances of the time. In addition to his novels, he wrote numerous plays, short stories, autobiographical accounts, poetry, songs and scientific, artistic and literary studies. His work has been adapted for film and television since the beginning of cinema, as well as for comic books, theater, opera, music and video games. Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation was markedly different in the Anglosphere where he had often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered in which his novels have often been printed. Since the 1980s, his literary reputation has improved. Jules Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking between Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare. He has sometimes been called the "father of science fiction", a title that has also been given to H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback. In the 2010s, he was the most translated French author in the world. In France, 2005 was declared "Jules Verne Year" on the occasion of the centenary of the writer's death.

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Commemorated on 5 plaques

Le 8 février 1828 Jules Verne romancier précurseur des découvertes modernes est né dans cette maison

English translation: On February 8, 1828 Jules Verne, a forerunner of modern discoveries, was born in this house

, Nantes, France where they was born (1828)

Jules Verne 1828-1905 Écrivain a vecu et ecrit ici de 1882 À 1900

English translation: Jules Verne 1828-1905 writer lived and wrote here 1882 to 1900

2 rue Charles-Dubois, Amiens, France where they lived (1882-1990) and wrote (1882-1900)

Jules Verne vécut 24 ans dans cette maison il y mourut le 24 Mars 1905

English translation: Jules Verne lived 24 years in this house. He died 24 March 1905

44 Boulevard Jules VErne, Amiens, France where they lived

Jules Verne vécut 24 ans dans cette maison il y mourut le 24 Mars 1905

English translation: Jules Verne lived 24 years in this house and died here 24 March 1905

44 Boulevard Jules VErne, Amiens, France where they lived (1881-1905) and died (1905)

Jules Verne (1828-1905) fit de fréquents séjours dans cette maison propriété de ses tantes.

English translation: Jules Verne (1828-1905) made frequent stays in this house owned by his aunts.

Rue Fourtier Masson, Provins, France where they stayed