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JULES VERNE
Introduction
The year 1828 was an unsettled and unsettling one in Europe and America. In the United States, the old Federalist Party was fighting a losing battle against the popular forces that surrounded Andrew Jackson, as President John Quincy Adams' administration drew to a close. In England, conservative forces drew around the Duke of Wellington, who became Prime Minister under George IV. In France, the uneasy reign of Charles X had but two more years to run, before a revolution would upset the restored monarchy. But it was in France that the most memorable event of this year occurred; on February 8, 1828, a son was born to a distinguished lawyer in Nantes, one M. Verne; the boy was named Jules, and his name would become known throughout the world, wherever people read tales of wonder.
There was no question in the mind of M. Verne as to what vocation his son would pursue; he would distinguish himself in the law as his father had, and the boy duly underwent the rigorous training that was required. That