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Re: Gabby
From: Garmt de Vries <G.deVries~at~phys.uu.nl>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 23:59:55 +0100 (CET)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, thomas mccormick wrote:
> Right. But is this particular statement (about Verne being known as Gabby)
> right or wrong?
Sounds rather like a nickname they might give him in "The secret
adventures of Jules Verne", or a similar anglophone piece of fiction. No
19th-century Frenchman would give a guy called Jules Gabriel the nickname
Gabby, IMHO.
Cheers,
Garmt.
Received on Sat 11 Feb 2006 - 01:00:03 IST
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