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

From: Jules-Verne-Club <jvc~at~jules-verne-club.de>
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:35:26 +0200
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <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




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----- 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 Sat 23 Jul 2005 - 19:37:03 IDT

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