Jules Verne (Jules Vern)

born February 8, at Nantes, the ancient capital of Breton Dukes, the family lawyer, Pierre Verne and Verne and Sophie, nee de la Fyuye Allotey, the heiress of an old family Nantes shipbuilders and shipowners. The future writer received his primary education at the seminary SW. Donasena in Nantes lycц?e. In 1848 he went to Paris, where he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws. However, instead, to return to Nantes and to become a companion of his father, he remains in Paris and decides to devote himself to literature.
Author of numerous (c.. 70) science fiction, adventure, geographical and socio-utopian works, in t. h. novels, "From the Earth to the Moon" (1865), "Children of Captain Grant" (1867-68), "20000 Leagues Under the Sea" (1869-70), "Mysterious Island" (1875), he became the most translated writer of France - its books they read on the eighty-three languages. He is one of the founders of the genre of science fiction, and some of Verne's scientific ideas were subsequently embodied in reality.