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Re: Reading Jules Verne--any takers? (department of France)

From: Peter Harold <haroldmania~at~yahoo.se>
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:43:36 +0200 (CEST)
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 --- Garmt de Vries <G.deVries~at~phys.uu.nl> skrev:

> > > facts: for every department of France it
describes> the general aspect, > orography,
hydrography, population, agriculture,
> mining, etc., and then > lists the major cities per
arrondissement. It's a> really good source of
> reference, but there's no story at all.

Well, I think I remember that Jules Verne said it was
a pleasure to work with that project, but it could be
less amazing for the buyers to read it. Was this in a
letter to his father?

> I did read bits and pieces of the Geography:
> Lavallee's introduction, and
> the texts on some regions when I wanted to know some
> background info.>

As I am a beginner of reading french, this subject is
too difficult for me. But I find a importance of this
work as it describe France before the Franco-Preussian
War 1871(?) and help us to built a image of his
country of that time.

And yet I have to agree how good the Navigator-serie
is, I am reading it in swedish and it is a C.A. Swahn
translation so I believe it is a good work. Amazing
and amusing.

Is there any schoolars at this list who have been
studying the manuscript of Jules Vernes abandoned book
of world-geography? Was it in the same style as the
french Geography?

Best regards
Peter
Received on Mon 20 Sep 2004 - 14:43:41 IDT

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