Jules verne when was he born

He was the first child of Sophie Henriette Allotte de la Fuye and Pierre Verne, an attorney who had four more children following the birth of Jules.

Living in a maritime port city and spending summers on the Loire River, Verne would closely observe the comings and goings of ships and schooners which developed his imagination for adventure and travelling. Jules had begum writing short stories and poetry while studying at boarding school after which he went to Paris to study law following the footsteps of his father.

However, Verne seemed to be more interested in pursuing a career in theater rather than law much to the disappointment of his father. During this period, Verne collaborated with his musician friend Jean Louis Aristide Hignard several times. A Journey to the Center of the Earth describes the adventures of a party of explorers and scientists who descend the crater of an Icelandic volcano and discover an underground world.

In From the Earth to the Moon and its sequel, Round the Moon , Verne describes how two adventurous Americans—joined, naturally, by a Frenchman—arrange to be fired in a hollow projectile from a gigantic cannon that lifts them out of Earth's gravity field and takes them close to the moon. Verne not only pictured the state of weightlessness his "astronauts" experienced during their flight, but also he had the vision to locate their launching site in Florida, where nearly all of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's NASA space launches take place today.

Verne wrote his two masterpieces when he was in his forties. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea relates the voyages of the submarine Nautilus, built and commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, one of the literary figures in whom Verne incorporated many of his own character traits.

Around the World in Eighty Days is the story of a successful bet made by a typical Englishman, Phineas Fogg, a character said to have been modeled on Verne's father, who had a mania for punctuality, or the art of timeliness. Verne's total literary output comprised nearly eighty books, but many of them are of little value or interest today.

One noteworthy feature of all his work is its moral idealism, which earned him in the personal congratulations of Pope Leo XIII — Verne's personality was complex. Though capable of bouts of extreme liveliness and given to joking and playing practical jokes, he was basically a shy man, happiest when alone in his study or when sailing the English Channel in a converted fishing boat. In Verne was the victim of a shooting accident, which left him disabled.

The man that shot him proved to be a nephew who was suffering from mental instability. This incident served to reinforce Verne's natural tendency toward depression. Although he served on the city council of Amiens two years later, he spent his old age in retirement. In he became partially blind and he died on March 24, in Amiens. Costello, Peter. Jules Verne: Inventor of Science Fiction.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, Evans, I. Jules Verne and His Work. New York: Twayne, Verne continued to write despite pressure from his father to resume his law career, and the tension came to a head in , when Verne refused his father's offer to open a law practice in Nantes. In , Verne met and fell in love with Honorine de Viane, a young widow with two daughters. They married in , and, realizing he needed a stronger financial foundation, Verne began working as a stockbroker.

However, he refused to abandon his writing career, and that year he also published his first book, The Salon Le Salon de In , Verne and his wife embarked on the first of approximately 20 trips to the British Isles. In , the couple's only child, Michel Jean Pierre Verne, was born. Verne's literary career had failed to gain traction to that point, but his luck would change with his introduction to editor and publisher Hetzel in Verne was working on a novel that imbued a heavy dose of scientific research into an adventure narrative, and in Hetzel he found a champion for his developing style.

In , Hertzel published Five Weeks in a Balloon Cinq semaines en ballon , the first of a series of adventure novels by Verne that would comprise his Voyages Extraordinaires. Inspired by his love of travel and adventure, Verne soon bought a ship, and he and his wife spent a good deal of time sailing the seas. Verne's own adventures sailing to various ports, from the British Isles to the Mediterranean, provided plentiful fodder for his short stories and novels.

He only stayed a week — managing a trip up the Hudson River to Albany, then on to Niagara Falls — but his visit to America made a lasting impact and was reflected in later works. By this point, Verne's works were being translated into English, and he could comfortably live on his writing. Beginning in late , the serialized version of Verne's famed Around the World in Eighty Days Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours first appeared in print.

The story of Phileas Fogg and Jean Passepartout takes readers on an adventurous global tour at a time when travel was becoming easier and alluring. In the century plus since its original debut, the work has been adapted for the theater, radio, television and film, including the classic version starring David Niven.

Although he was enjoying immense professional success by the s, Verne began experiencing more strife in his personal life.