This is the story of two young Parisians, Jacques and Jonathan, who want to visit England and Scotland, and pass through Bordeaux and Nantes. The manuscript of this novel, refused by Hetzel in 1862 as will later also be that of Paris in the Twentieth Century, was found in the archives of the city of Nantes and published posthumously in 1989. Ce livre raconte l'histoire de deux jeunes parisiens, Jacques et Jonathan, qui veulent visiter l'Angleterre et l'Écosse, et passent par Bordeaux et Nantes. Le manuscrit de ce roman, refusé par Hetzel en 1862 comme le sera plus tard celui de Paris au XXe siècle, a été retrouvé dans les archives de la ville de Nantes et publiés à titre posthume en 1989.
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Novels of French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, considered the founder of modern science fiction, include Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules\_V...
