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Nantes Jules Gabriel Verne was born in Nantes, France on February 8, 1828. He was the eldest son of a prosperous provincial lawyer. An uneventful childhood was marked by one major escapade. In his twelfth year, Jules shipped as a cabin boy on an ocean-going ship. The ship was intercepted by his father before it had put out to sea, and Jules is said to have promised his parents that "in future he would travel only in imagination"

Paris In 1847 Verne ended up going to Paris to study law like his dad, although privately he was already planning a literary career. Owing to the friendship he made with Alexandre Dumas the Elder Verne's first play, Broken Straws, was produced - with some success - in 1850. From 1852 to 1855 he held a steady and ill-paid position as secretary of a Paris theater, the Théâtre Lyrique.

Family During a visit to Amiens in May 1856, Verne met and fell in love with the widowed daughter of an army officer, Madame Morel (Honorine de Viane). In 1857 Verne married Honorine (1830-1910). She had two daughters, Suzanne and Valentine, and with whom Jules would have one child, Michel Jean Verne (1861- 1925)

Pierre-Jules Hetzel He met Pierre-Jules Hetzel, a 19th century French publisher, who also published Victor Hugo, George Sand, and others. Hetzel and Verne formed a successful team until Hetzel's death.

First Novels Verne's first long work of fiction, Five Weeks in a Balloon, took the form of a journey by air over Central Africa, at that time largely unexplored. The book, published in January 1863, was an immediate success. He then decided to devote himself full time to authorship. His next few books were immensely successful at the time and are still counted among the best he wrote.

First Novels A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (1866) From the Earth to the Moon (1865) Round the Moon (1870)

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Verne wrote his two masterpieces when he was in his 40s.Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (1870) relates the voyages of the submarine Nautilus, built and commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, one of the literary figures in whom Verne incorporated many of his own character traits.

Around the World in Eighty Days Around the World in Eighty Days is the story of a successful wager made by a typically phlegmatic Englishman, Phillias Fogg, a character said to have been modeled on Verne's father, who had a mania for punctuality. In 1873 Verne published “Around the World in Eighty Days”. The book was published serially at first. One of his most famous novels, the book had people believing that Verne was depicting an actual trip around the globe.

Later in Life Toward the end of his career, Verne’s publishing become more pessimistic. In 1886 his nephew Gaston shot him in the leg after a mental breakdown. Verne walked with a limp for the rest of his life. He spent most of his days on his yacht he bought with his earnings off of “Around the World in 80 Days.” Verne died in 1905 at the age of 77.

Sources Britannica Concise Encyclopedia http://www.answers.com/topic/jules-verne#ixzz1fK2RR0Rr Everything You Know About Jules Verne is Probably Wrong http://io9.com/everything-you-know-about-jules-verne-is-probably-wrong- 512554592