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Re: Undersea Science Fiction Predating Verne

From: volker dehs <volker.dehs~at~web.de>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:17:29 +0200
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Hi, there are three french titles which might be interesting for you:

1) "Voyage au fond de la mer par le capitaine Mérobert" (anonymous by Clément-Jules Briois), Paris: Comon et Cie. 1845, the story of the captain Merobert who don't needs to breathe, or less than other humans, and who visits the underwater kingdom Piscopolie

2) "Voyage sous les flots" by Aristide Roger (Jules Rengade), Paris: Amable Rigaud 1868. Scientist Dr. Trinitus, accompagnied by two friends, is searching for his lost wife and daughter in a little electrical moved submarine "L'Éclair", less interesting than Verne's Nautilus.

3) "Voyage au fond de la mer" by Henri de La Blanchère, Paris: Furne, Jouvet et Cie., a fairy tale on a boy captured by a bad sea fairy, recued by a good sea fairy who shows him the bottom of the sea.

It's the first book which is the most rare. I, too, would be interested to know other submarine fantasies preceeding the Verne book.

Bill Butcher mentions two other books:

"Le Fond de la mer" by Léon Sonrel (Hachette 1868), but it's no fiction, and

"Le Club des Toqués, aventures sous-marines, sublunaires et autres", Paris: Maurice Dreyfous, published not in 1869, but only in 1878 after serialization in the "Musée des familles" in 1873. There is no underwater city, but a submarine, the "Ferragus diver". Other title of the same book: "Sous l'eau" (1879).

Best regards,
Volker
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