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Re: Michel VERNE or Michel JULES-VERNE?

From: Brian Taves <btav~at~loc.gov>
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 11:22:04 -0500 (EST)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

I discuss this issue, which is primarily psychological and commercial
rather than legal, in my article on Michel, see
http://jv.gilead.org.il/taves/michel.jfp.html one

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Walter J Miller wrote:

>
> Dear Peter Harold:  Jean Michel, grandson of Jules Verne, assumed the
> name of Jean Jules-Verne.  He published his bio of his grandfather under
> that name.  I never heard or saw Michel Verne----son of Jules, father of
> Jean Jules-Verne, using the compound name.  He was usually just Michel
> Verne. So:
>
> Pierre Verne, Jules' father
>
> Jules Verne
>
> Michel Verne
>
> Jean Jules-Verne
>
> Jean Verne (the present Verne, discoverer of Paris in the XXth century)
>
> That's the best I have in stock.  Somebody else may have more.  I don't
> think such name changes are normal or traditional, there's no standard
> way that "French names change."
>
>  Walter James Miller
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: Peter Harold <haroldmania~at~yahoo.se>
>
> Date: Thursday, December 9, 2004 5:39 am
>
> Subject: Michel VERNE or Michel JULES-VERNE?
>
> > Dear friends!
> >
> > Please, can someone explain to me how names in France
> > change? In my example, I wonder how Michel VERNE
> > became Michel JULES-VERNE.
> >
> > I don't know if this topic have been up to this Forum
> > before.
> >
> > Best regards
> > Peter
> >
>


Brian Taves
Motion Picture/Broadcasting/Recorded Sound Division
Library of Congress
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Telephone: 202-707-9930; 202-707-2371 (fax)
Email: btav~at~loc.gov


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