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Re: Forum

From: Walter J Miller <wjm2~at~nyu.edu>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:50:53 -0400
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Thanks, J-M! JUst what I (and I believe others) needed. Excellent history. Gratefully, your old old old friend. Walter

----- Original Message -----
From: Jean-Michel Margot <jmmargot~at~mindspring.com>
Date: Monday, March 29, 2010 7:25 pm
Subject: Re: Forum
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>


> On 3/29/2010 7:54 AM, Walter J Miller wrote:
> > Yes, I would like someone of J-M's stature to give us a "brief
> traduction" of what happened, Walter James Miller
> Ok, ok... You got me once more, Walter...
>
> ;-) ;-) ;-)
>
> Here is the short story, for our Anglo-saxon friends.
>
> In the seventies, Daniel Compère created the "Centre de documentation
> Jules Verne" in Amiens. It was in the family garage and its objective
> was to offer information and documentation about JV, the man and his
> works, just the opposite of a gift shop!
>
> His parents, Cécile and Maurice took over and in more than 20 years,
> putting all their free time into it, they created an entity which
> served the whole world, accumulating around 20000 documents of all kind.
>
> It was THE place where anybody, scholars and general public, could get
> true and reliable information and bibliographic references about the
> REAL JV.
>
> Cécile and Maurice were very close friends and I use this opportunity
> to state that the Vernian scholarship today wouldn't be what it is
> without them.
>
> I worked closely with Cécile and Maurice, helping them to increase the
> documentation at the Centre: about 50% of the documents of the Centre
> are xeroxes of documents I had in my own collection (which is now
> publicly availabe in Switzerland, at the House of Elsewhere).
>
> Around the Centre was created a society of friends to support the
> Centre, which, after a few years, was housed in JV's house - Rue
> Charles Dubois, the house with the tower.
>
> In the nineties, JV's house and the Centre were recognized as THE JV
> entity in Amiens. It was so successful that some people wanted to use
> it for their personal promotion.
>
> The name "Documentation" was dropped and replaced by "International",
> which gives the following title: "Centre International Jules Verne" or
> CIJV. In fact, it's not international, but remains typically French.
> Some years ago, the CIJV dedicated an issue of the REVUE JULES VERNE
> to "Jules Verne in America". Two articles written in English by two
> American scholars were translated and published in French!
>
> Today the CIJV is a shiny entity, serving the icon JV, not the real
> writer and his works. No JV specialist works there anymore, and the
> documentation collection is abandoned. The JV house has been
> transformed in a gift shop promoting the name more than the works.
>
> The last exchange of "nasty" emails in the JV Forum (mainly in French)
> is due to the exasperation of the European JV scholars who see the
> CIJV leaving the area of Verne scholarship and taking more and more
> the direction of promoting JV as an icon, a symbol - the same way ESA
> took in naming the first ATV Jules Verne.
>
> Jean-Michel Margot
> 226 Thomas Ruffin Str.
> Hillsborough, NC 27278
> USA
> Tel: (919) 644-7327
> Fax: (919) 640-8794
> jmmargot~at~mindspring.com
> www.ajmm.net
> www.najvs.org
> www.verniana.org
> www.against-the-tide.org
>
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