Jules Verne

Jules Verne was born in 1828 in Nantes, a busy port in western France, the eldest son of a lawyer. Ships from all over the world filled the harbor, and he dreamed of travel. He went to Paris to study law, as his father wished, but became more interested in the theater, writing plays and working as secretary of a theater. He also went into business with a stockbroker. In 1862 he met the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel, who published his novel Five Weeks in a Balloon in 1863 and signed him to write two books a year. These became the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of more than sixty novels combining adventure with geography and science. They include Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), with its submarine Nautilus and Captain Nemo, and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872), in which Phileas Fogg races to win a bet. Verne enjoyed sailing his own boats. He lived in Amiens, where he served on the city council, and died there in 1905.

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Faith: Raised Catholic; he later gravitated toward deism. Source: Wikipedia