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Re: Reading Jules Verne--any takers? (Geography)

From: volker dehs <volker.dehs~at~web.de>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 12:44:29 +0200
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If JV is not longer read by children (I, personnally, see things not so dramatically), there are still less people who read encyclopedias or dictionnaires, and the "Geographie de la France" is one, as JV pointed out to his fahther in 1867. This title was one of my first Hetzel I bought in Paris when I was 15 (as Dick Sand), and I never read it from beginning to the end. Nevertheless, it is quite interesting for the informations on France when Verne was alive and wrote his novels. So the characterizations of the different Frenchman are very revealing und you find facts about cities partly destroyed by the wars of 1914 and 39. Finally, it is of some biographical interest what Verne writes about Paris, for example the transformation of the city managed by the baron Haussamnn from 1851 to the 70s. There, facts become personal opinions.
Cheers, Volker
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