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Re: Who have read "Neptunia No.237?"

From: Bernhard Krauth <BGYKrauth~at~t-online.de>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:19:14 +0200
To: "JV Forum Zvi Har'El International" <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

> Dear Jan,
>
> thank you for pointing me towards these informations which I didn't had in
> mind. Anyhow the article in the "Neptunia" is giving a couple of
> interesting
> details about the Degrave - story, which I got confirmed also by Jean -
> Michel Margot meanwhile...
>
> Kindest regards
>
> Bernhard
>
>
>
>
> mail from:
>
> Bernhard Krauth
>
> have a look at:
>
> www.jules-verne-club.de
>
> www.bernhard-krauth.de
>
> www.bremerhavenpilot.de
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jan Rychlík" <jan.rychlik~at~seznam.cz>
> To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 10:03 PM
> Subject: Re:Who have read "Neptunia No.237?"
>
>
>>> The article is presenting "Les frères Kip" in his first part and then
>>> descibing
>>> a real happening from the years 1891/1893 (the brothers Léonce and
>>> Eugène
>>> Degrave), which is in some way very close to the Kip - story, so that I
>>> can
>>> imagine that Jules Verne wrote his novel based on that events.
>>> Anybody who know about that article or the historical true story from
>>> the
>>> Degrave - brothers in this Forum? And if so, what is your opinion?
>>
>> Dear Bernhard,
>>
>> the Degreave (aka Rorique) affair as an ispiration of Les frčres Kip is
>> confirmed by Volker Dehs in his recent Verne biography (pp. 415-6).
>> According to its footnotes, it was already Marcel Moré who pointed to
>> this
>> fact in his 1960 book Le trčs curieux Jules Verne. And I remember that
>> later also Herbert Lottman mentioned it.
>>
>> Christian Porcq in BSJV (No. 109, 1994, "Catyclysme dans la cathédrale ou
>> le secret des Frčres Kip"), on the contrary, believes Verne's novel was
>> inspired by the Dreyfus affair. He supports his thesis with many
>> cryptograms (unconvincing to me), but Volker Dehs demonstrates that the
>> book had been written before Verne changed his mind in favor of Dreyfuss.
>>
>> Sincerely
>>
>> Jan Rychlik
>>
>
Received on Fri 22 Jul 2005 - 20:19:35 IDT

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