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Re: Ingenieur des Mines and illustrations

From: boutin <boutin~at~versailles.inra.fr>
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 10:35:09 +0200
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

So more information. Badoureau seems to have been a regular
collaborator of JV. He also revised the manuscript of Robur (note for
letter 4/8/1885_ Correspondance III) and, beside checking the maths,
suggested style changes that were accepted by JV ! The Badoureau ms.
are at the Bibliothèque of Nantes (Dekiss, JV l'anchanteur, p 290)

Jean-Pierre

Le mercredi, 4 aoû 2004, à 13:01 Europe/Paris, volker dehs a écrit :

> Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il> schrieb am 04.08.04 12:37:56:
>>
>> Yan, your text is an excellent summary of the French "Grande Ecole"
>> specificity and ... problem ...
>> About Badoureau, I found in my personal library that : (1) he was a
>> friend of JV (according to a correspondence), (2) he was "nommé a
>> Amiens" suggesting that he worked in the "Administration", (3) he was
>> also a writer and "Sans dessus dessous" was inspired to JV by a
>> manuscript by Badoureau ("Les Nouveaux Titans" or something like that
>> ... Ha! Alzeimer!) that JV bought to Badoureau, (4) JV introduced
>> Badoureau in the novel as Pierdeux, (5) he revised entirely the novel
>> and disliked this surname, (6) Pierdeux is said to originate from
>> "Ecole Polytechnique" that JV probably judged more famous than "Ecole
>> des Mines".
>
> To give further informations:
> "Le Titan moderne" was not a novel, but a collection of 48 scientific
> notes written by Badoureau between april and october 1888, on a demand
> of Verne. The "chapitre supplementaire" is an extract of these notes,
> two are on errors comitted by Verne in his monn novels.. Badoureau
> (who met Verne exactly in the Societe Industrielle and who was
> introduced by Verne to the Amiens Academy in november 1885 - or 86, I
> forgot) got 2.500 F (ca. 7.500 EUR actually), paid for one half by
> Verne, and by Hetzel on the other.
> In January 1889, Badoureau published "Les Sciences experimentales en
> 1889" (Quantin) a highly complicated book (sorry, for non-physicians
> like me) with some philosophical ideas in which he mentions Jules
> Verne, pp. 89-90, for his ideas of submarines and flying machines; a
> rather unhabituel manner for a scientist in late 19th century!
>
> Cheers,
> Volker
>
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