A
Abdullah, 79
"About the Géant," 151
Adam, Edmond, 170–171
Adam, Juliette (née Lambert), 170–171
Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Raspe), 40
Adventures of Captain Hatteras, The, 155–158, 175, 227, 249
Adventures of Robert-Robert (Desnoyer), 40
"Adventures of the Rat Family, The," 225
Adventures of Three Russians and Three Britons, 222
Albany, 177, 179
Alexander VI, 59
Alexis (hypnotist), 107
Algeria, 273
Algiers, 246–247
Allott, N., 8
Allotte de la Fuÿe, Alexander, 59
Allotte de la Fuÿe, Augustin, 5, 65, 83, 109
Allotte de la Fuÿe, Dame Sophie, 5, 7, 143
Allotte de la Fuÿe, Eugène, 12
Allotte de la Fuÿe, Georges, 162, 273
Allotte de la Fuÿe, Gustave, 12
Allotte de la Fuÿe, Marguerite, 12, 34, 59, 167
Allotte de la Fuÿe, Maurice, 273
Allotte de la Fuÿe, Prudent, 7–8, 12, 20–22, 143
Alloue, Monsignor, 15
Alsace, 184
America. see United States
American writers, influence of, 208–209
Amiens, 115, 125–126, 170, 218–219, 238–239, 279–280, 289–290
ancestry, 2–3, 5–8
Anderson, James, 176
Angèle (friend), 57
Antarctica, 186
Antibes, Cap d', 230, 257, 288
Anvers, N. d', 227
Anzin, 244
Aouda, Princess, 224–225
Arago, Jacques, 82–83
Archipelago on Fire, The, 267
Ardan, Michel, 163–164
Arnault-Grossetière, Herminie, 62–63, 67–68, 212
Arnous-Rivière, W., 15, 65, 74
Aronnax, Dr., 186, 192
Around the Moon, 209–210
Around the World in Eighty Days, 25, 180–181, 224–227, 233–234, 249, 262
Around the World in Eighty Days (movie and TV versions), 227
Arpentigny, Casimir d', 75
"Ascent of the Météore," 225
Atlantis, 186
Aubryet, Xavier, 128
Auteuil, 153
autopropulsive devices, 283–284
Ayrton, 172, 231
B
Bachelors, 93–94, 125
Backwards to Britain, 25, 136, 154, 175, 236, 249
Baden-Baden, 198
Badoureau, Albert, 237
Bain, Amelia, 134
Bain, William, 134
"Balloon Journey, A," 83
balloons, 145–147, 214, 225, 227, 267
Balzac, Honoré de, 90
Barère, Joséphine de, 65
Barnum, P. T., 177, 180
Barral, Jean-Augustin, 145
Barsac Mission, 295
Basse Indre, 29–30
Baudelaire, Charles Pierre, 208
Bazin, François, 94
Beautiful Yellow Danube, The, 293
Béchenec, Charles de, 94, 128, 237
Begum's Heritage (/Millions/Fortune), The, 181, 249
Belgium, 265
Bertall, Charles, 94
Bertrand, Joseph, 164, 210
Beside the Adour, 111
bestiality, 261
Bible, 255
Binet Island, 32
Bixio, Alexandre, 145
Black Indies, The, 236, 244
Blanchard, Dr. (psychiatrist), 251–252
Blind Man's Bluff, 109–110
"Blockade Runners," 154
Blue Diamond (Laurie), 249
Bly, Nellie, 227
Bodin's bookshop, 48
Bonamy, Adolphe, 237
Bonamy, Édouard, 48–49, 58, 69, 71–72, 81
Bordeaux, 133
Bordighera, 171, 230
Bos, Charles-Paul, 195
Bouillé, Erménégilde de, 97
Boulanger, Ernest, 49, 94
Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle, 87, 100
Boulevard de Longueville, 290–291
Boulevard de Magenta, 124–125
Boulevard Guyencourt, 218
Boulevard Longueville, 219, 269
Boulevard Monmartre, 124
Boulevard Poissonnière, 105
Boulevard Saint-Charles, 219
Bourgeois, Simon, 187
Boyer, Philoxène, 94
Braheix, Monsieur, 65, 74
Brains, 7, 20–22
Brébant, 94
Bréhat, Alfred de, 146
Brest, 169, 179, 193, 245–246, 264
Brighton, 244
British at the North Pole, The. see Adventures of Captain Hatteras, The
Broken Straws, 56, 80–81
Brooklyn, 177, 179
Brothers Kip, The, 293
Brun, Charles, 187
Brunel, Isambard, 175
Buffalo, 178
Bulot, Alfred, 195–196
Bulot, Michel, 195
Buloz, François, 181
Burton, Richard, 148
Busnach, William, 128
C
Cabel, Marie, 92–93
Cadol, Édouard, 233–234
Café Procope, 72
Caffanjon, Jean, 284
Calais, 196–197
Cambronne, General Viscount, 38
Cannes, 170
cannibalism, 222
Captain Grant's Children, 172–173, 257
Captain Nemo, 186–195, 219–220, 231–232
Caron café, 154
Carpathian Castle, 212, 283
Carré, Michel, 131
Carthage, 274
Caspers, Henri, 94
Castles in California, 91–92
Cavaignac, Eugène, 64–65
Chaffanjon, Jean, 284
Cham (friend), 128
Championnière, Paul, 74, 78, 90
Chan, Jackie, 177
Chancellor, The, 222
Chantenay, 26–30, 161–162, 198, 247
Charruel, Rosalie, 61, 100
Chassin (friend), 49
Château de la Fuÿe, 8–9
Château Thierry, 116
Châteaubourg, Caroline de la Celle de, 16, 24–25, 38, 198
Châteaubourg, François de la Celle de, 16, 25, 38, 65, 247
Chateaubriand, François René de, 16
Chateaubriand, René-Auguste, 12
Châtelet Theater, 234, 257
Chauves, Paul, 49
Chéguillaume, Ninette, 29, 96–98
Chênes verts (villa), 230
Chevalier, Pierre, 83, 91–92
Child, The (Vallez), 49
Child of the Cavern, 236
China, 258–259
"Chinese Song, A," 259
Circle of the Scientific Press, 145
circumnavigation, 224–226
Claudius Bombarnac, 57, 283
Cocteau, Jean, 227
Col de Tende, 171
Collège Royal, 46–47
Colombel, Evariste, 82
Colonaders, 128
colonialism, 267
"Confiteor," 266
Cooper, James Fenimore, 30, 91, 208
Coquebert, Jean-Baptiste, 15
Coral, Count de, 75
Coralie (ship), 34–35
Cork, 176
Couëtoux du Tertre, Émile, 48, 58
"Count of Chanteleine," 153–154
Count of Monte Cristo, The (Dumas), 76
Cowes, 244
Crater, The (Cooper), 40
Cretan Liar Paradox, 225
Crimean War, 113
Crystal Palace, 170
D
Daily Telegraph (newspaper), 227
Dal, 140
Damien, Auguste, 46
Dauder, Alphonse, 126
David, Héloïse, 98
de Viane, Ferdinand, 210
Deal, 265
Deberly, Albert, 237
Deladérère (teacher), 46
Delbarre, P. J., 124
deleted or changed sections of works, 223
Adventures of Captain Hatteras, 157
Around the World in Eighty Days, 225
Discovery of the Earth, 255
From the Earth to the Moon, 164–165
Mysterious Island, The, 232
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, 188–194
Underground City, The, 236
Delibes, Léo, 94
Delioux, Charles, 94, 128
Delmas, Léon, 250
Delong, Alexander (Sandre), 195–196
Denmark, 138–142, 265
desert islands, 231
Desgraviers, Armand, 29
Deville, Charles Saint-Claire, 159, 164
Dickens, Charles, 40, 132
Discovery of the Earth, The, 255
diving apparatus, Rouquayrol-Denayrouze, 187
Don Galaor, 78
Dover, 197, 244, 264–265
Dr. Aronnax, 186, 192
"Dr. Ox" (opera), 251
"Dr. Ox" (story), 225
Dr. Ox's Experiment and Other Stories, 225
"Dr. Trifulgas," 225
Drama in Livonia, 292
"Drama in the Airs, A, 225
Drama under Louis XV, A, 78–80
Du Chaillu, Paul, 176
Dubail, Edmond-Yvon, 255
Dubigeon (friend), 49
Duchesne, Mme., 212
Ducrest, Raymond, 182, 247
Dufresne, Alfred, 123
Dumas, Alexandre fils, 75–77, 80–81, 90, 237
Dumas, Alexandre père, 75–77
Dunkirk, 83
Duquesnel, Félix, 88, 94, 234
Duverger, Charles, 96
E
Earth Before the Deluge (Figuier), 159
"Edgar Allan Poe and his Works," 208
Edinburgh, 134
"Edom," 298–299
Eggly's, 127
Elements of Mechanics (Garcet), 90, 126
Eleven Bachelors, 93–94, 125
Eleven-Day Siege, 131
Enault, Louis, 132
England. see Great Britain
English Channel, 196–197
Ennery, Adolphe d', 230, 233, 265, 288
Erdre, 15, 20, 30, 184
Erdre-Loire confluence, 14–15, 23
Étiennez (friend), 49
European trip (1861), 138–142
exploration, 25, 148, 159, 255
Extraordinary Journeys, 25, 136, 165, 180–181, 295
F
Family Without a Name, 57, 181
Feydeau, 4, 6, 14–15
Feydeau, Ernest-Aimié, 128
Field, Cyrus, 176
Figaro (newspaper), 207
Figuier, 145, 159, 187, 249, 271
Figuier, Louis, 159
"First Ships of the Mexican Navy," 83
Five Weeks in a Balloon, 145–152
"Flight to France, The," 224
Floating City, A, 181–182, 249
Flourens, Gustave, 187
Fogg, Phileas, 219, 224–227
For the Flag, 283–284
"Fortieth French Ascent of Mont Blanc" (Paul Verne), 225
Fournier, Félix, 38
Fournier-Sarlovèze, Raymond, 94, 128
France
absence from JV's books, 224
travels within, 244–247, 264, 288–289
Franco-Prussian War, 213–214
François, Louise, 96
Francy, Henri de la Rue de, 219
French Academy, 238
From the Earth to the Moon, 163–164, 209, 250
funerals, 67, 121, 295
G
Gaillardet, Frédéric, 128
Gand, Édouard, 237
Garcet, Eugénie, 65, 88
Garcet, Henri, 64–65, 90, 164, 214
Garnier family, 74
Gaston (friend), 262, 265
Gautier, Théophile, 76, 156, 259
Gavarni (illustrator), 148
Géant, 151
Genevois, Ernest, 48–49, 58, 73–74, 95, 99–100
Genoa, 275
geographical quests as theme, 104, 148, 155–159, 172
Germany, 138–142, 265
giant squid, 187, 195
Giblain (stock broker), 126
Gibraltar, 273
Gille, Phillippe, 94, 128, 131, 237, 250
Girardin, Émile de, 65, 76
Glenarvan, Lord, 172
Godard, Eugène, 225
Godefroy, Robert, 237, 262, 265, 273
Goethe, 77
"Gold-Bug" (Poe), 159
Golden Volcano, The, 293
Golfe Juan, 170–171
Gondola della Riva, Piero, 295
Gouté, Pitre, 83, 95
Gouty Rat, The (shop), 15, 225
Goyon, Charles-Marie-Augueste de, 34–35
Gracq, Julien, 156
Graslin Theater, 80–81
Graust, Nanou, 49–50
Gravesend, 188, 197
Great Britain, 132–136, 196–197, 229, 262–265
Great Eastern (boat), 136, 175, 177, 179, 181
Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century, The, 249, 255
Green Ray, The, 261, 266
Greenwood, James, 210
Grouse, The, 78
Guernsey, 229, 245
Guillon, Alfred, 15
Guimard, The, 110
Gunpowder Plot, The, 78–80
Gymnase, 93, 111
H
Halgan, Stéphane, 48–49
Happy for One Day, 111
Hardwigg, 228
Hatteras, John, 155–157
Haussmann, Georges-Eugène, 87
Heavier-than-Air Society, 151
Hebrides, 229
Hector Servadac, 42, 230
Hénin, Estelle, 212
Hetzel, Jules fils, 197, 229, 237–238, 244–245, 262, 285
Hetzel, Jules (Pierre-Jules), 146–150
contracts with JV, 149, 160–166, 205–206, 215, 220–222, 234, 255
death of, 278
on Honorine, 219
Legion of Honor request, 213
letters to, 187–191, 268
and Michel Strogoff, 255–256
and Mysterious Island, The, 232
as publisher, 153–155, 172, 184–185, 223–224, 255, 285
travels with, 170–171, 198, 244–247, 265
and Tribulations of a Chinese in China, 259
and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, 188–189
and Underground City, The, 236
Hignard, Aristide
collaboration with, 131, 153
death of, 290
friendship with, 48–49, 74, 87–88, 94, 128
Rimes et Mélodies, 129
sexual orientation, 260
trip to Great Britain, 132–136
Historic Theater, 76, 80. see also Lyric Theater
Hoffmann, E. T. A., 66
Holland, 265
Holy Cross, 15, 37, 184
homosexuality, 84–85, 260
Hôtel du Golfe, 170–171
Hudson River, 177
Hugo, Victor, 58, 65–67, 77
Humbug, 180
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (Hugo), 77
hunting, 25–26, 125–126
hypnosis, 107
I
Ice Sphinx, The, 228
Ideville, Henri d', 94
Illustrated France (Malte-Brun), 183
Illustrated Geography of France and its Colonies, The, 183–185, 249
"In the Year 2889," 250
Indre (Basse Indre), 29–30
Indret, 29, 162
Inn of the Ardennes, 131
Insurrection of Paris, 64
Invasion of the Sea, 292
Inzievar House, 135, 187
Ionesco, Eugène, 156
Ireland, 229
"Is There a Moral Obligation for France to Intervene in the Affairs of Poland?", 64
Isaac Laquédem (Dumas), 90
Italy, 171, 271, 274–275
Ivanhoe (Scott), 132
J
Janin, Jules, 76
Janmar, Laurence, 96
Janssen, Jules, 164
"Jedediah Jamet" (incomplete), 59
Jersey, 170
Joly, 245
Jomini, Madame, 65
Joubert (friend), 128
Journal des débats politiques et littéraires (magazine), 164, 181
Journal des enfants (magazine), 41
Journey Around the World (Arago), 82
Journey Through the Impossible, 257
Journey to the Center of the Earth, 11, 158–159, 180, 183, 207, 228, 249–250, 261
Journey Under the Waters. see Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
Journeys in the Ice (Hervé and Lanoye), 156
Journeys to the Moon (Offenbach), 250
Joyous Miseries of Three Travelers in Scandinavia, 138
K
Keraban the Inflexible, 257
Knights of the Daffodil, The, 110
L
la Barbelais, Louise Macé de, 61
la Brosse, François Guillet de, 12
La Guerche, 20
la Motte, Eugène Janvier de, 96
"La Solitude" (house), 166–167
La Valette, 274
Lake Ontario, 178
Lamartine, Alphonse de, 65, 71
Lanterne (newspaper), 207
Larochelle, Henri, 94, 233, 265
Lassée, Marie-Thérèse, 8
Laurie, André, 249
Lavallée, Théophile, 183–185
Le Crotoy, 166–167, 210
Le Havre, 196
Le Plessis-Cellier, 21
Le Tréport, 244, 247, 264–265
League of the French Fatherland, 281
Lefebvre, Georges, 219
Lelarge, Auguste, 115–116
Lemonnier (teacher), 46
Leo XIII, 275
L'Épine, Ernest, 94, 126
Les Salorges, 29
Lesseps, Ferdinand de, 213
Lidenbrock, Professor, 158–159, 228
Lighthouse at the End of the World, 292–294
Lind, Jenny, 65
Lindenbrog (Lendenbrocke), Friederich, 159
literary establishment, lack of acceptance by, 209, 234, 257, 294
Liton, Charles, 95
Litoust, Pierre, 31
Liverpool, 134, 160
Livingstone, David, 148
Loire, 14, 27, 33, 38, 184
London, 170, 229
Lorin, Jules, 95
Lorois, Émile, 48, 94–95, 128
Loudun, 8
Louis-Phillippe, 64
Louis Salvator, Archduke of Habsburg, 274
Lucas-Championnière, Paul and Juste, 22
Lycée Henri IV, 64
Lyric Theater, 92–93, 131
M
Macé, Jean, 161
madness, 107, 277
Magasin illustré d'éducation et de récréation (magazine), 161
Magasin Pittoresque (magazine), 41
Magellania, 293
Maisonneuve, Charles
financial assistance, 81
friendship with, 49, 58, 65, 73–74, 88, 94, 128
MÅller, Eugénie Jeannette Marie-Rose, 213
MÅller, Gustav, 213
Malot, Hector, 128
Malte-Brun, Victor-Adolphe, 132, 183
Man in the Iron Mask (Dumas), 171
maps
European trip (1861), 139
Feydeau, 4
Le Crotoy, 167
Loire, 33
Mediterranean trips, 246
Nantes, 39
Scotland, 135, 263
trips to Great Britain and U.S., 133
Marcé, Victor, 49, 105, 245
Marcel, Gabriel, 249, 255
Markovich, Maria Alexandrovna, 212–213
"Marriage of Monsieur Anselme des Tilleuls, The," 42, 104–105
Martin, Mme., 72
"Martin Paz," 90–91
Marvels of Science (unpublished), 266
masked balls, 243, 277
Massé, Victor, 74, 88, 94, 131, 265
Master of the World, 181, 292
Master Zacharius (character), 103–104
"Master Zacharius" (story), 103, 225
mastodons, 177, 183
masturbation, 261
Mathias Sandorf, 257, 267
Mathias Sandorf (play), 288
Maurice (friend), 273
Maurras, Charles, 281
May Fly (boat), 265
Mediterranean, 170–172, 230, 246–247, 272–275
Méduse, 222
Meissonier, Ernest, 131
"Memories of Childhood and Youth," 30, 40–41
Merino, Ignace, 91
Méry, Pauline, 98
Meteor Hunt, 293
Mettray, 251
Meusnier, Captain, 148
Michel Strogoff, 249, 255–256
Mighty Orinoco, The, 284
mining, 236
Mistress Branican, 19
Mohawk, 177–178
Mona Lisa, 111
Monaco, 230
Montford, Denys de, 187
Montmartre, 124
Morel, Honorine-Anna Hebée (née de Viane) (later Verne), 115–119
Morel, Suzanne, 124, 143, 166, 173, 219, 247, 290
Morel, Valentine, 124, 143, 166, 219, 273
Morlaix, 5
Morocco, 273
Mortagne, 97
Most Extraordinary Journeys of Saturnin Farandoul, The (Robida), 251
movies
Around the World in 80 Days, 227
Mr. Chimpanzee, 131
Musée des families (magazine), 83, 90–91, 103, 151, 153
Musseau, Charles, 15
Musset, Alfred de, 77, 113
"Mutineers of the Bounty," 249
Mysterious Island, The, 176, 226, 230–233
N
Nadar (friend), 131, 146, 151, 237
Nadaud, Gustave, 94
Nantes, 1, 6, 10, 12–14, 39, 184, 252
Nantes from Feydeau Island (painting by Turner), 10
Napoleon, Louis (later Napoleon III), 64
Napoleon III, 89
Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, The (Poe), 208
Nautilus (fictional submarine), 186–195
Nemo, Captain, 186–195, 219–220, 231–232
Nephew from America, 256
Nerval, Gérard de, 66
New Jersey, 177, 180
New Lessons in Cosmography (Garcet), 90, 222
New Prince's Dock, 175
New World, 16
New York, 177–179
Niagara Falls, 178, 180–181
Nice, 170
Nonboarders Club, 48, 58
North Africa, 246–247, 273
North Against South, 283
North Pole as theme, 155–158, 207, 266
Norway, 138–142
O
Octavie (ship), 35
Offenbach, Jacques, 250–251
Ollive, Charles-Frédéric, 245
Órléans, Gaston d', Comte de Eu, 238
Órléans, Henri d', Comte de Paris, 237
Ossian, 139
Ostend, 197
P
Paganel, Jacques, 172
Paimboeuf, 35
Palin, Michael, 227
palmistry, 75
Paqueteau, Monsieur, 3
Pâris, Mathurine, 11, 23, 27, 161, 290
Paris Commune, 214
Paris in the Twentieth Century, 137–138, 154
Pass of Tende, 171
Passage Saulnier, 125
Passepartout, 224–227
past-in-the-future theme, 138
Perret, Paul, 48–49, 284
Petit Séminaire Saint-Donatien, 41–43
"Pierre-Jean," 104
Pigeory, Félix, 130
Pioneers (Cooper), 91
Pitfold, David, 49, 94–95
Place de la Croix Rouge, 197
Place Graslin, 11, 38, 71
Plihon (teacher), 46
Plongeur (submarine), 187
Poe, Edgar Allan, 153, 159, 208–209
Poems, 55–56
Poincaré, Raymond, 284
Poiré, Paul, 237
Polar Sea (Lanoye), 156
Pole and the Equator, (Dubois), 156
Pont-Jest, René de, 250
Porte Saint-Martin Theater, 234
Portugal, 246, 273
Poupart-Davyl (friend), 49
prehistoric discoveries, 177, 180, 183
Prévôt, Monsieur, 74
Priest in 1839, A, 41, 59, 143
Princess Aouda, 224–225
Propeller Island, 180, 266, 283
Provins, 7, 24, 61
Prudent, Uncle. see Allotte de la Fuÿe, Prudent
psychological concepts in JV's works, 226
Q
Quai Brancas, 13, 16
Quai de la Fosse, 13, 24, 28, 57
Quai duguay-Trouin, 6, 14
Quai Jean Bart, 9–10, 20
R
Rabelais's Quarter-Hour, 78
racism in JV's works, 231
Raft of the Méduse, 222
Ramsgate, 265
Raoul-Duval, Edgar, 229, 245–247
"Rat Family, The," 279
Reboul, Jeanne, 252–253
Reclus, Élisée, 273
Reform Club, 224, 227
Réunion, 67
reviews
of Adventures of Captain Hatteras, 156
of Around the World in 80 Days, 227, 234
of Blind Man's Bluff, 110
of Captain Grant's Children, 257
of Five Weeks in a Balloon, 150
of Journey Through the Impossible, 257
of Keraban the Inflexible, 257
of Michel Strogoff, 257
of Mr. Chimpanzee, 131
Revue des beauz-arts (magazine), 130–131
Richardson, Samuel, 90
Rimes et Mélodies (Hignard), 129
Riquiqui Puppet Theater, 59
Rob Roy (Scott), 132
Robida, Fred, 251
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe), 34
Robinson of the Desert Sands (Mirval), 40
Robur-the-Conqueror, 267
Romantic movement, 66, 77, 85, 139
Rome, 275
Rouquayrol-Denayrouze diving apparatus, 187
Royer, Alphonse, 128
Rue Charles Dubois, 269
Rue d'Amboise, 100
Rue de Clisson, 5–6
Rue de l'Ancienne Comédie, 71–72
Rue de Sèvres, 197
Rue des Martyrs, 105
Rue du Faubourg Monmartre, 124
Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 16, 37–38, 57
Rue Kervégan, 6, 9, 14
Rue La Fontaine, 153
Rue Louis le Grand, 74, 87–88
Rue Saint-Martin, 124
Rue Santeuil, 37
Rue Suffren, 252
Russia, 255–256
S
"Sabines, The," 78, 89
sailing
on St. Michel, 186–187, 195–197, 201, 211, 229
on St. Michel II, 244
on St. Michel III, 245–247, 262–265, 272–276
Saint-Nazaire Harbor, 264
Saknussemm, Arne, 158
sales of JV's books, 150, 206
Salon of 1857, The, 129–131
Sambin, Mme., 19
"San Carlos," 104
Sand, George, 156, 171, 186
Sardou, Victorien, 131
"Savants, The," 78, 89
scatological references in JV's works, 104, 107–108, 158–159
Schiller, Fredrich, 77
Schwob, Georges, 48–49, 79
science fiction, 25, 149, 287
scientific dehumanization theme, 138
Scotland, 132–136, 186, 236, 262–264
Scott, Walter, 132
Sea Outing, 78
Second Homeland, 292
Second Republic, 64, 71
Secret of Wilhelm Storitz, The, 293
self-mortification, 16
Selkirk, Alexander, 40
Serpette (friend), 47
Séveste, Edmond, 92
Séveste, Jules, 92–93
Sèvre, 30
Shakespeare, William, 208
ships and the sea
early exploits, 30–34
fascination with, 14, 24, 26, 51, 167
first experiences of, 40–41
running away to sea, 34–35
sailors stories and novellas, 28
sea voyages, 133, 140, 175–179
St. Michel II (JV's boat), 244
St. Michel III (JV's boat), 245
St. Michel (JV's boat), 169, 186–187, 195
steamboats, 177, 180
shipwrecks, 19, 32–34, 186, 192, 222, 231, 273
"Siege of Rome, The," 105, 272
Sivanne, Pierre, 46
slave trade, 1, 12–13
smallpox epidemic, 210–211
Smith, Cyrus, 176, 231
Smith, William, 135
social commentary in JV's works, 154, 163–164
Society of Geography, 238
Sometimes You Need Someone Smaller, 78
Southampton, 244
Southern Star, The, 181, 249
space travel, 164, 210
Spain, 246, 273
Spy, The (Cooper), 91
St. Donatien Junior Seminary, 41–43
St. Michel (boat), 188, 195–197, 201, 211, 229
St. Michel II (boat), 244
St. Michel III (boat), 245–247, 262–265, 272–276
St. Stanislas School, 31–32
steamboats, 177, 180
Stop (friend), 94
Study Trip (incomplete), 293
submarines, 104, 186–195
Suez Canal, 225
Survivors of the "Jonathan," 295
Sweden, 138–142, 265
Swiss Family Robinson (Wyss), 34, 40
Switzerland, 212–213
Sydenham, 170
T
Talbot, Eugène, 46
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (Poe), 208
Tales/Yarns of Jean-Marie Cabidoulin, 292
Talexy, Adrien, 74, 80, 88, 94
Tangiers, 246
Tâton, Thérèse, 252–253
technology, 25, 287
Telemark, 140
"Ten Hours' Hunting," 280
Teutsch, Luise/Louise, 213
Théâtre Lyrique, 92–93
themes
geographical quests, 25, 104, 148, 155–159, 172
North Pole, 155–158, 207, 266
past-in-the-future, 138
scientific dehumanization, 138
Thiers, Adolphe, 64
Third Republic, 214
Thompson Travel Agency, 250
Three Musketeers, The (Dumas), 76
Three Old Sailors (Greenwood/Verne), 210
Tony (grandchild), 269
Topsy-Turvy, 266, 283
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, 100
Tour du monde (magazine), 207
Tower of Montlbéry, 110–111
Towle, George M., 227
trains, 177–178, 224–226
Transactions of the French Alpine Club (magazine), 182
transcontinental railroads, 224–225
translations of works, 202, 227–228
travel, 22, 136, 148, 159. see also exploration
Traveling Scholarships, 292
Treetop Village, 293
Trentemoult, 27, 30, 132, 245
Tribulations of a Chinese in China (book), 258
Tribulations of a Chinese in China (play), 257, 288
Tronson, Caroline, 21, 25, 43, 50, 55–57, 237, 290
Tronson, Céline, 7
Tronson, Edmond, 25
Tronson, François (uncle), 6, 9, 15, 23
Tronson, Henri, 25
Tronson, Henri-Edmond, 26
Tronson, Hilaire, 25, 50, 57
Tronson, Léontine, 6–7
Tronson, Louise (aunt), 9
Tronson, Marie, 21, 25, 50
Tunisia, 273–274
Turgenev, Ivan, 144
Turner, J. M. W., 6, 10, 13–14
Twelve-Year-Old Crusoe (Beaulier), 40
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, 180, 185–195
U
Uncle Prudent. see Allotte de la Fuÿe, Prudent
unconscious mind, 226
Underground City, The, 236, 249
Underland, 236
United States, 175–181
Universal Exposition of Fine Arts, 130, 187
Uriage-les-Bains, 233
V
Vachette's, 94
Vallez, Jules, 49
Verconsin, Eugène, 94
Verne, Alexandre, 12
Verne, Alphonsine, 7
Verne, Amélie, 7
Verne, Anna, 37, 143, 161, 179
Verne, Gabriel, 3, 7
Verne, Gaston, 277–278
Verne, Honorine
Hetzel on, 219
illnesses, 210–212, 243–244
marital difficulties, 173, 219
social ambitions, 219
travels, 247, 272–275, 289
trip to Cap d'Antibes, 230
wedding, 121–123
Verne, Jules
as art critic, 129–131
artistic abilities, 239
assassination attempt, 277–278
birth, 6
brothels and courtesans, 57, 99–100
category confusion, 15
characteristics, 50, 84–85, 114, 144–145, 239–241
childhood, 10–17, 19–20, 23–35, 37–47
children (see MÅller, Eugénie Jeannette Marie-Rose; Verne, Michel)
christening, 7
city council member (Amiens), 279–280
collaborators
Cadol, 233–234, 256
Carré, 131
Chevalier, 91–92
d'Ennery, 256
Dumas fils, 76–77, 80, 111
Hignard, 131
Michel Verne, 295–299
Paul Verne, 182
Sardou, 131
Wallut, 110–111, 131, 256
courtship of Honorine, 115–119
death and funeral, 294–295
depression, 111, 137, 278
diabetes, 207, 291
ducks and duck hunting, 25–26
east-west disorder, 15
education, 19–20, 31–32, 41–43, 46–47
engagement, 117–119
escape, longing for, 35, 138
finances
financial difficulties, 73, 109, 217–219
in later years, 268, 276
Michel's debts, 276
profits from plays and operas, 234
publishing contracts, 149, 160–166, 205–206, 215, 220–222, 234, 255
wedding, 116–118
friends, 48–49, 58, 73–74, 88, 94, 128, 237–238
ghostwriting, 249–250
godparents, 7
grandchildren, 252, 269, 290
great-grandchildren, 292
handwriting, 20
health issues, 73, 105–107, 207, 291
homes (see also Appendix A)
Amiens, 218–219, 290
Chantenay, 26–30
Le Crotoy, 166–167, 210
Nantes, 6, 37–40, 252
Paris, 71–72, 87–88, 105, 124–125, 153, 197–198
interviews with, 286–288
Jewishness, rumors of, 269
jobs
legal career, 89–90
secretary of Lyric Theater, 92–93
stockbroking, 116, 126–128, 149, 218
law exams, 61, 65–67, 81
lawsuits, 247–248, 284
left-right disorder, 15
legal career, 54–55, 58, 89–90
legal studies, 58, 60–61, 65–67
Legion of Honor, 213, 280
letters
about love, 66–67
about marriage, 97, 99
about post-rebellion Paris, 65
about summer vacation, 49
about Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, 187–188
about women, 99–100
to Caroline Châteaubourg, 24–25
to father, 42–43
to Genevois, 99–100
to Hetzel, 187–191, 268
to mother, 44–45, 66–67, 97
scatological references, 107–108
literary interests and influences
about England and Scotland, 132
about the North Pole, 156
in childhood, 33, 40–41
in later years, 208, 270–271, 289
Romantic movement, 77, 90–91, 139
and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, 187
machines, fascination with, 29, 51
manic-obsessive traits, 50, 114
marriage (see also Verne, Jules, wedding)
attitude towards, 95, 99, 173, 270
and funerals, 67, 121
marital difficulties, 173, 219, 270–271
married life, 124–128
military, attitude towards, 113, 163
mistresses, 211–213
music criticism, 91
musical abilities, 113, 239
name, 6, 91, 164
National Guard duty, 214, 219
neuralgia, 106, 161
old age, 289–294
performance of plays, first public, 80
physical appearance, 50, 62–63, 81, 124, 143–144, 239, 286
plagiarism, 156, 159, 183, 247–250
poetry, interest in, 51, 59–60
politics, 60, 64, 279–281
posthumous works, 295
religion, attitude towards, 16, 59, 281–282
Scottish ancestry, 8–9, 23
sea voyages, 133, 140, 175–179
sexual tensions, 15, 50, 100, 158–159, 259–262
shyness, 17, 23, 84–88, 114, 202
skepticism, 144, 226, 232, 239, 282
songs, 153
speaking tour, 279
stockbroking, 116, 126–128, 149
stoicism, 50, 114
summer vacations, 20–22, 143, 161–162, 166–167, 198
timidity, 17, 23, 84–88, 114, 202
travels (see also Appendix B; Appendix C)
Algiers, 246–247
English Channel, 196–197
Europe, 138–142, 170–171
in France, 196–198, 229–230, 244–247, 264, 288–289
Great Britain, 132–136, 262–264
Ireland, 229
Italy, 271, 274–275
Mediterranean, 272–275
North Africa, 246–247, 273
sailing trips, 229, 244–247, 262–264
Scotland, 262–264
Spain and Portugal, 246, 273
speaking tour, 279
Switzerland, 212–213
United States, 175–179
wedding, 121–123
wedding contract, 118
writing method, 285–286
Verne, Jules, works of
articles
"About the Géant," 151
"Ascent of the Météore," 225
"Confiteor," 266
on Edgar Allan Poe, 153
"Edgar Allan Poe and his Works," 208
"Is There a Moral Obligation for France to Intervene in the Affairs of Poland?", 64
"Joyous Miseries of Three Travelers in Scandinavia," 138
on Lucia di Lammermoor, 91
on the Salon of 1857, 129–131
"Siege of Rome, The," 105, 272
"Ten Hours' Hunting," 280
books
Adventures of Captain Hatteras, The, 155–158, 175, 227, 249
Adventures of Three Russians and Three Britons, 222
Archipelago on Fire, The, 267
Around the Moon, 209–210
Around the World in Eighty Days, 25, 180–181, 224–227, 249, 262
Backwards to Britain, 25, 136, 154, 175, 236, 249
Barsac Mission, 295
Beautiful Yellow Danube, The, 293
Begum's Heritage (/Millions/Fortune), The, 181, 249
Black Indies, The, 236, 244
Brothers Kip, The, 293
Captain Grant's Children, 172–173
Carpathian Castle, 212, 283
Chancellor, The, 222
Child of the Cavern, 236
Claudius Bombarnac, 57, 283
Discovery of the Earth, The, 255
Dr. Ox's Experiment and Other Stories, 225
Drama in Livonia, 292
From the Earth to the Moon, 163–164, 209, 250
Family Without a Name, 57, 181
Five Weeks in a Balloon, 145–152
For the Flag, 283–284
Floating City, A, 181–182
Golden Volcano, The, 293
Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century, The, 249, 255
Green Ray, The, 261, 266
Hector Servadac, 42, 230
Humbug, 180
Ice Sphinx, The, 228
Illustrated Geography of France and its Colonies, The, 183–185, 249
Invasion of the Sea, 292
Jedediah Jamet (incomplete), 59
Journey to the Center of the Earth, 158–159, 180, 183, 207, 228, 249–250, 261
Lighthouse at the End of the World, 292–294
Magellania, 293
Master of the World, 181, 292
Mathias Sandorf, 267
Meteor Hunt, 293
Michel Strogoff, 249, 255–256
Mighty Orinoco, The, 284
Mistress Branican, 19
Mysterious Island, The, 176, 226, 230–233
North Against South, 283
Paris in the Twentieth Century, 137–138, 154
Priest in 1839, A, 41, 59, 143
Propeller Island, 180, 266, 283
Robur-the-Conqueror, 267
Salon of 1857, The, 129–131
Second Homeland, 292
Secret of Wilhelm Storitz, The, 293
Southern Star, The, 181, 249
Study Trip (incomplete), 293
Survivors of the "Jonathan," 295
Tales/Yarns of Jean-Marie Cabidoulin, 292
Thompson Travel Agency, 250
Topsy-Turvy, 266, 283
Traveling Scholarships, 292
Treetop Village, 293
Tribulations of a Chinese in China, 258
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, 180, 185–195
Underground City, The, 236, 249
Voyagers of the Nineteenth Century, The, 249, 255
Will of an Eccentric, 180, 284
Wreck of the "Cynthia," 181, 249
Yarns/Tales of Jean-Marie Cabidoulin, The, 292
operas and operettas
Abdullah, 79
Blind Man's Bluff, 109–110
Grouse, The, 78
Inn of the Ardennes, 131
Knights of the Daffodil, The, 110
Mr. Chimpanzee, 131
plays
Alexander VI, 59
Beside the Adour, 111
Broken Straws, 56, 80–81
Captain Grant's Children, 257
Castles in California, 91–92
Don Galaor, 78
Drama under Louis XV, A, 78
Eleven-Day Siege, 131
Guimard, The, 110
Gunpowder Plot, The, 78–80
Happy for One Day, 111
Journey Through the Impossible, 257
Keraban the Inflexible, 257
Marvels of Science (unpublished), 266
Mathias Sandoft, 257, 288
Mona Lisa, 111
Nephew from America, 256
Rabelais's Quarter-Hour, 78
Savants, The, 78
Sea Outing, 78
Sometimes You Need Someone Smaller, 78
Tower of Montlbéry, 110–111
Tribulations of a Chinese in China, 257, 288
War on Tyrants, 111
Who Laughs Dines, 110
poems
about Herminie Arnault-Grossetière, 67–68
to Alfred Dufresne, 123
to Caroline Tronson, 55–56
to Herminie Arnault-Grossetière, 62–63
in Hignard's book, 129
to Honorine, 123
for mother, 45
stories and novellas
"Adventures of the Rat Family, The," 225
"Ascent of the Météore," 225
"Balloon Journey, A," 83
"Blockade Runners," 154
"Chancellor, The," 222
"Chinese Song, A," 259
"Count of Chanteleine," 153–154
"Don Galaor," 78
"Dr. Ox," 225
"Dr. Trifulgas," 225
"Drama in the Airs, A, 225
"Edom," 298–299
"First Ships of the Mexican Navy," 83
"Flight to France, The," 224
"In the Year 2889," 250
"Marriage of Monsieur Anselme des Tilleuls, The," 42, 104–105
"Martin Paz," 90–91
"Master Zacharius," 103, 225
"Memories of Childhood and Youth," 30, 41–42
"Mutineers of the Bounty," 249
"Pierre-Jean," 104
"Rat Family, The," 279
"Sabines, The," 78, 89
"San Carlos," 104
"Savants, The," 90
"Siege of Rome, The," 105, 272
"Study Trip," 293
"Ten Hours' Hunting," 280
"Winter Amid the Ice /Wintering in the Ice," 103–104
"Winter Amid the Ice/Wintering in the Ice," 225
Verne, Marcel, 292
Verne, Marie, 37, 143, 161
Verne, Mathilde, 37, 143, 161
Verne, Michel
birth of, 138, 143
education, 166
financial difficulties, 276
imprisonment, 251–252
and JV's contracts, 221–222
marriage, 252
misbehavior, 174–175, 251–252
relations with, 291
travels with, 244–245, 262, 273
writings of, 250, 295–299
Verne, Paul
birth, 10
collaborations with, 182
death of, 289
education, 20, 31–32, 41–43
engagement and wedding, 98, 143
navel cadet, 60
relationship with JV, 54, 109
ships and the sea, 30–31
as stockbroker, 161
travels, 67, 175–179
travels with, 169, 245–247, 265, 273
writings, 182, 249
Verne, Pierre, 3–5, 15–17, 39, 42–44, 79, 214
Verne, Pierre-Paul. see Verne, Paul
Verne, Sophie (née Allotte de la Fuÿe), 4–5, 44–45, 97, 278–279
Verne, Vital, 2
Vernet, Horace, 130
Véron, Pierre, 94, 126
Viane, Ferdinand de, 116, 126
Viane, Honorine de. see Morel, Honorine-Anna Hebée; Verne, Honorine
Vigny, Alfred de, 77
Villa Bruyères, 170–171
Villemessant, Hippolyte de, 94
Villeneuve, Raymond Ducrest de, 20
Villeroi, Brutus, 42
volcanoes, 156–159, 231
Voleur (magazine), 164
Vovchok, Marko, 213–214, 256
Voyagers of the Nineteenth Century, The, 249, 255
W
Wallut, Charles, 110–111, 128, 131, 237
War on Tyrants, 111
Wey, Francis, 132, 249
Who Laughs Dines, 110
Will of an Eccentric, 180, 284
"Winter Amid the Ice/Wintering in the Ice," 103–104, 245
women, relationships with, 53–57, 62–63, 95–101, 202
Woolwich, 229
Wreck of the "Cynthia," 181, 249
Y
Yarmouth, 194, 262, 264–265
Yarns/Tales of Jean-Marie Cabidoulin, 292
Yarns/Tales of Jean-Marie Cabidoulin, The, 292
Z
Zabbah (friend), 128
Zacharius, Master, 103–104
Zola, Émile, 156, 208