At 09:30 24.08.2004, you wrote:
>I'm just re-reading the html version of "Jules Verne at home" (1895) by
>Marie A. Belloc where we can read:
>
>"As he sat talking he didn't look his seventy eight years, and, indeed,
>appeared but little changed since the large portrait, hanging opposite
>that of his wife, was painted some twenty odd years ago."
>The picture itself says "Age 45".
>
>Is the "age 78" an original mistake? Sorry if the question had already
>been raised before...
The Strand Magazine text is as you quoted it above, Ralf. It's printed
"seventy-eight". The article is illustrated with two Verne portraits: one
at age 45 and one "Present day".
Jean-Michel Margot
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Hillsborough, NC 27278
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Tel (919) 644-7327
email jmmargot~at~mindspring.com
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Received on Wed 25 Aug 2004 - 22:59:19 IDT
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