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Re: In the footsteps of Phileas Fogg

From: Carmen Pitulan <lunatics~at~home.ro>
Date: 4 Jun 2004 09:25:54 -0000
To: JulesVerneForum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

Hello everybody, and many thanks for answers!
Dear Mr. Margot, if there is possible to have some more information, photocopies of articles and so on, about the past trips around the world, I would be very happy and gratefull!
I am really interested into this subject.
Have a nice day to all!
Carmen Pitulan


Pe 03 Jun 2004, la 20:25, Jean-Michel Margot <jmmargot~at~mindspring.com> a scris:

>The history of Fogg's competitors is more than a century old and a few of=
>=20
>the "Phileade" runners were mentioned in others postings: Bly, Cocteau,=20
>Palin, for example.
>
>It's a long story with books published after every run. Some journalists=20
>and scholars even have already studied this subject. The first article is=
>=20
>from 1926 already: Lecoq, Jean =96 Les recordmen du Tour du monde. Le Petit=
>=20
>journal illustr=E9, 11 April 1926, p. 173. Later, in 1976, Fran=E7ois Comp=
>=E8re=20
>published a list of more than 30 runners: Comp=E8re, Fran=E7ois =96 Les cou=
>reurs=20
>du tour du monde. Revue des Lettres modernes (Paris, Minard), s=E9rie Jules=
>=20
>Verne, vol. 1, no 456, p. 169-175. He doesn't mention Palin and Moss=E9 who=
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>did the race later.
>
>If anybody is interested in a photocopy of these articles, please let me kn=
>ow.
>
>
>Jean-Michel Margot=20



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