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Happy 183rd Birthday Jules Verne! Google celebrates by using a 20,000 Leagues motif on their page today.
Jules Verne's last published book, Paris in the Twentieth Century, was not released until 1994! Thought lost forever after the tumultuous years of WWII, it was discovered in a safe in the 1990's. It is set in Paris 1960, about 100 years after it was written. It presents a dark view of 20th Century Paris unlike the imaginative, far-flung adventures in his other works. Readers claim many of Verne's predictions in the book are remarkably on target. Interestingly one thing he predicted was that a large building would one day be erected on the site where the Eiffel Tower now stands.
Jules Verne's last published book, Paris in the Twentieth Century, was not released until 1994! Thought lost forever after the tumultuous years of WWII, it was discovered in a safe in the 1990's. It is set in Paris 1960, about 100 years after it was written. It presents a dark view of 20th Century Paris unlike the imaginative, far-flung adventures in his other works. Readers claim many of Verne's predictions in the book are remarkably on target. Interestingly one thing he predicted was that a large building would one day be erected on the site where the Eiffel Tower now stands.
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