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Jules Verne

1828 - 1905

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Jules Gabriel Verne (; French: [ʒyl ɡabʁijɛl vɛʁn]; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). His novels are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account contemporary scientific knowledge and the technological advances of the time. In addition to his novels, he wrote numerous plays, short stories, autobiographical accounts, poetry, songs, and scientific, artistic and literary studies. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jules Verne is the 15th most popular writer (up from 16th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from France and the 3rd most popular French Writer.

Jules Verne is most famous for his science fiction novels.

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Among writers, Jules Verne ranks 15 out of 7,302. Before him are Leo Tolstoy, Franz Kafka, Victor Hugo, Voltaire, James Joyce, and Sophocles. After him are Virgil, Molière, Miguel de Cervantes, Jean-Paul Sartre, T. S. Eliot, and Ovid.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1828, Jules Verne ranks 2. Before him is Leo Tolstoy. After him are Henrik Ibsen, Henry Dunant, Rani of Jhansi, Randal Cremer, Saigō Takamori, Charbel Makhlouf, Hippolyte Taine, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Nikolay Chernyshevsky, and Albert Marth. Among people deceased in 1905, Jules Verne ranks 1. After him are William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Muhammad Abduh, Ernst Abbe, Ferdinand von Richthofen, Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Adolph Menzel, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich of Russia, Louise Michel, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Carl Wernicke, and Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jules Verne ranks 11 out of 6,770. Before him are Joan of Arc (1412), Louis XVI of France (1754), Victor Hugo (1802), Voltaire (1694), Louis Pasteur (1822), and Claude Monet (1840). After him are Molière (1622), Montesquieu (1689), Maximilien Robespierre (1758), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807), and Louis XV of France (1710).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jules Verne ranks 3. Before him are Victor Hugo (1802), and Voltaire (1694). After him are Molière (1622), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), Alexandre Dumas (1802), Honoré de Balzac (1799), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Charles Baudelaire (1821), Marcel Proust (1871), and Denis Diderot (1713).

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