Jules Verne
 | Jules Verne was born in France at Nantes in Brittany on February 8, 1828. The son of a lawyer, he went to Paris to study law but was soon sidetracked by the appeal of the Bohemian lifestyle. He was befriended by the son of Alexander Dumas, whose father advised and guided him. On a trip to Armiens in 1857 he met a young widow of twenty-six with two young children, Mme. de Vianne (Honorinede Viane Morel) and they were married on January 10, 1857. In 1860, Verne met Pierre-Jules Hetzel, publisher of Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, Georges Sand, and Émile Zola. In 1863 Hetzel published Verne's first novel Five Weeks in a Balloon, which was a tremendous success on both sides of the Atlantic. Verne's ensuing contract with Hetzel committed him to producing two volumes per year for twenty years. The result was a series of fifty-four novels (the Voyages Extraordinaires) published between 1863 and 1905. In 1870 the couple returned to Amiens where he spent the rest of his life. Jules Verne died on March 24, 1905, in his home from complications associated with diabetes. |
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