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Early life
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Jules Gabriel Verne was born
He was born in Nantes, France. His parents were Pierre Verne, an attorney originally from Provins, and Sophie Allote de la Fuÿ -
Early education
Verne went on to École Saint‑Stanislas, a Catholic school suiting the pious religious tastes of his father. Verne quickly distinguished himself in recitation from memory, geography, Greek, Latin, and singing. -
Family move
Vernes familly moved again to a large apartment at No. 6 Rue Jean-Jacques-Rousseau, where the family's youngest child, Marie, was born. In the same year Verne entered another religious school, the Petit Séminaire de Saint-Donatien, as a lay student. -
Law studies
Verne's father sent him to Paris, primarily to begin his studies in law school, and secondarily to distance him temporarily from Nante. -
Verne met a fomous writer from Nantes, Pierre-Michel-François Chevalier
Verne first offered him a short historical adventure story, "The First Ships of the Mexican Navy". Pitre-Chevalier published it in July 1851, and in the same year published a second short story, "A Voyage in a Balloon". The latter story, with its combination of adventurous narrative, travel themes, and detailed historical research. -
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Literary debut
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Verne's father pressed him to abandon his writing
His father offered Verne his own Nantes law practice. Verne decided conclusively to continue his literary life and refuse the job, writing: "Am I not right to follow my own instincts? It's because I know who I am that I realize what I can be one day." -
Two new pieces from Verne appeared in the Musée des familles: "Martin Paz".
A novella set in Lima, which Verne wrote in 1851 and published 10 July through 11 August 1852, and "Les Châteaux en Californie, ou, Pierre qui roule n'amasse pas mousse" (The Castles in California, or, A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss), a one-act comedy. -
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Later years
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Verne married Morel
Verne traveled to Amiens to be the best man at the wedding of a Nantes friend, Auguste Lelarge. Verne, invited to stay with the bride's family, took to them warmly, befriending the entire household and finding himself increasingly attracted to the bride's sister, Honorine de Viane Morel, a widow aged 26 with two young children. -
Verne was shooted
as Verne was coming home, his twenty-six-year-old nephew, Gaston, shot at him twice with a pistol. The first bullet missed, but the second one entered Verne's left leg, giving him a permanent limp that could not be overcome. Gaston spent the rest of his life in a mental asylum. -
Verne dead
While ill with diabetes, Verne died at his home in Amiens, 44 Boulevard Longueville. Some of his book were later published by son and grandson.
