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Re: Pterodactyl in Centre de la Terre?

From: volker dehs <volker.dehs~at~web.de>
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 12:56:11 +0200
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In fact, Riou illustrated "La Terre avant le déluge" (1863) de Louis Figuier, one of Verne's sources. Another of Verne's sources, the poem "Les Fossiles" (1856) of Flaubert's friend, Louis Bouilhet, describes the combat of Plesiosurus and Pterodactylus. But I remember that in "Voyage au centre de la Terre", Verne speaks of the Pt., without citing it's name. But no citation has been eliminated.

Cheers, Volker

> Dear friends,
>
> Here's something I just realised:
>
> In the combined frontispice for "Cinq semaines en ballon" and "Voyage au
> centre de la terre" (the first image at Ariel's page
> http://jgverne.cmact.com/VE/VCTierra.htm), there is a pterodactyl sitting
> on a rock, at the lefthand end of the cave. In the novel, as published in
> a volume, there is no such animal. I know that Verne added considerable
> bits of texts during the revision of this novel, but did he also eliminate
> a pterodactyl? Or is its presence in this picture just creativity on the
> part of Riou, the illustrator? That would show that not only Verne, but
> also Riou did a lot of background reading.
>
> Cheers,
> Garmt.

-- 
Volker Dehs, Eisenbahnstr. 9, D-37073 Göttingen. Tel.: 0551 / 38 13 088
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