Michel Verne
Michel Jean Pierre Verne (3 August 1861 – 5 March 1925) was a French novelist and editor, who was the son of Jules Verne. He was best known for his adventure novels, which included The Lighthouse at the End of the World (1905), The Golden Volcano (1906), and The Thompson Travel Agency (1907).
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Michel Verne
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- Name
- Michel Verne
- Born
- 3 August 1861
- Birthplace
- Paris, France
- Died
- 5 March 1925
- Place of death
- Toulon, France
- Occupation
- Novelist
- Spouse
- Jeanne Reboul
- Full name
- Michel Jean Pierre Verne.
- Nationality
- France
- Fields
- science fiction · sketch story · adventure fiction
- Education
- Mettray Penal Colony
- Languages
- French
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• Name — Michel Verne • Born — 3 August 1861 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Died — 5 March 1925 • Place of death — Toulon, France • Occupation — Novelist • Spouse — Jeanne Reboul • Children — 3 • Parents — Jules Verne
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Michel Verne, a writer, was born on 4 August 1861 and died on 5 March 1925.
Early life and education
Early life and education
Michel was born in Paris, France. Because of his wayward behaviour, he was sent by his father to Mettray Penal Colony, a private reformatory near Tours, for six months during 1876. By the age of 19, he caused a scandal by eloping with an actress despite his famous father's objections. By 1883, his father was reconciled to the marriage and Michel got married—only to abandon his newlywed wife and begin a relationship with 16-year-old Jeanne Reboul, with whom he had two children before his divorce was finalized. These and other issues strained the relationship between Michel and his father, but by the time Jules died in 1905, relations between them had improved and they had collaborated on some stories.
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Michel Verne was born in Paris, France, according to the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. The Bibliothèque nationale de France records the 10th arrondissement. Michel Verne died in Toulon, according to the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. The Bibliothèque nationale de France records the fuller form Toulon (Var).
Career
Career
Michel was in charge of publishing many of his father's last manuscripts, and it is rumored that Michel may have written some of them himself. Works previously attributed to Jules Verne but now considered to have been written by Michel include The Lighthouse at the End of the World, The Golden Volcano (in two parts, Claim On Forty Mile Creek and Flood and Flame) and The Thompson Travel Agency. Michel Verne wrote in a similar genre to his father, and was considered by his father to be a good writer, but his works are now generally considered to be inferior to those of his father. Some of his works, like Un Express de L'Avenir and In the Year 2889 are notable for their use of pneumatic tubes.
Works by Michel Verne
Works by Michel Verne
• The Thompson Travel Agency (1907) • La Destinée de Jean Morénas • L'Éternel Adam (The Eternal Adam, Short Story) • Un Express de L'Avenir • A Great Transatlantic Subway (Short Story) • In the Year 2889 (Short Story) • Survivors of the Jonathan (published in two parts in English as Masterless Man and Unwilling Dictator) • The Barsac Mission (1914)
Photo de famille, mon grand-père Michel Verne photographié en Russie fin du 19e siècle
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Mon grand-père Michel à 17 ans en 1878. Photo de famille.
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10ᵗʰ arrondissement of Paris.
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Toulon.
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- 1.Archives numérisées de l'état civil de Paris, acte de naissance , cote V4E 1093, 1861,.
- 2.Chapitre prénom1=Joëlle nom1=Dusseau titre Michel Verne ou le nom du père titre Les territoires du politique Presses universitaires de Rennes 2012 978-2-7535-2106-3 lire en http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/books.pur.133800 consulté le=2019-12-28 25-34 .
- 3.Voir, L'État-civil de Michel Verne dans BSJV , .
- 4.L'acte est reproduit du BSJV .
- 5.Jean-Louis Mongin, Michel Verne à Mettray, Bulletin de la Société Jules Verne , 2014, .
- 6.Thérèse, née le 2 avril 1857 est la fille d'un chef d'orchestre et acteur Joseph-Augustin Taton et d'une actrice. Elle continuera sa carrière d'actrice après son divorce avec Michel Verne sous le nom de jeune fille de sa mère, Valgalier (et parfois Valgalier-Dupont), jusqu'en 1910. La date de sa mort n'a pas encore été identifiée.
- 7.Cécile Compère, Michel Verne et la Dugazon, JV , 1995, .
- 8.Une lettre sur le sujet est reproduite dans le BSJV 184 en annexe.
- 9.C. Compère, , .
- 10.Côte 6U2-180, RG .
- 11.Acte reproduit par C. Compère, , .
- 12.Jeanne Adèle Reboul, née le 24 juillet 1866 à Béziers, fille d'un balancier, Jean Reboul et de Pauline Coste. Un portrait est reproduit dans le BSJV 184, .
- 13.Jean-Paul Dekiss, Jules Verne, l'enchanteur, Éditions du Félin, 1999, .
- 14.Jules Michel Dandré Verne, né le 30 mai 1885 à Paris et mort le 30 juin 1960. Il léguera à sa mort la plupart des manuscrits de son grand-père à son frère cadet.
- 15.Georges René Verne, né le 2 mai 1886 à Nîmes et mort le 13 septembre 1911 à Neuilly-sur-Seine. (Faire-part reproduit dans le BSJV .
- 16.La généalogie complète des enfants de Michel Verne est donnée dans le BSJV 184, .
- 17.Jean-Jacques Verne, né le 11 mai 1892 à Paris, auteur d'une biographie sur son grand-père, sous le nom de Jean-Jules Verne, en 1973 chez Hachette, qui relate les faits cités ici ; mort le 8 avril 1980 à Toulon.
- 18.Liquidation de la Communauté d'entre Monsieur et Madame Verne et de la succession de Monsieur Jules Verne, Bibliothèque d'Amiens métropole, collection Verne, côte JV MS 41, f° 50.
- 19.Volker Dehs, La Mort de Michel Verne, BSJV , 2014, .
- 20.Ibid. , p. 54 .
- 21.Dehs, , .
- 22.Le Volcan d'or a bien été écrit par Jules Verne, mais son fils, l'ayant repris à la demande de Louis-Jules Hetzel, en a dénaturé le sens. Première publication de l'œuvre originale : Société Jules-Verne, 1989.
- 23.Article en auteur1=William Hunter Proposed $19,000,000,000,000 tunnel could get you from London to New York in 54 minutes Daily Mail 24 février 2025 lire en https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14429097/19-trillion-tunnel-London-New-York-minutes.html?ito=social-facebook consulté le=24 février 2025 .
- 24.Jean Demerliac, ...et le cinématographe vint à Michel Verne (II), BSJV , 2014, .
- 25.Analyse et critiques presses par Philippe Burgaud, Un centenaire : Les Indes-noires, le deuxième (?) film de Michel Verne, Bulletin de la Société Jules Verne , mai 2018, .
- 26.Voir Jean Demerliac : Le Film Jules Verne. Revue Jules Verne 33/34, Centre international Jules Verne, 2011, .
Bibliography printed in the source article · 6
- Christian Chelebourg, KMXZ où Jules Verne parle de son fils dans la langue d'Arne Saknussemm, Revue Jules Verne 3, Centre International Jules Verne, 1997.
- Brian Taves, The Novels and Rediscovered Films of Michel (Jules) Verne, in Journal of Film Preservation , FIAF, , .
- Brian Taves, Michel Verne de l'écrivain au réalisateur, Revue Jules Verne 19/20, 2005, .
- Dossier Michel Verne I, Bulletin de la Société Jules-Verne , .
- Dossier Michel Verne II, Bulletin de la Société Jules-Verne ,
- Jean Demerliac, … Et le cinéma ne voulut pas de Michel Verne, Bulletin de la Société Jules-Verne , , .
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