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Caroline Tronson

This article makes no reference to Caroline Tronson who was his first love as well as the inspiration for several of his early works.Smallman12q (talk) 22:50, 7 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Misleading claim in section "Heztel's influence"

The section says that Capitan Nemo is changed "to an Indian prince fighting the British Empire after the Sikh War."

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea says that "As revealed in the later Verne book The Mysterious Island, Captain Nemo is a descendant of Tipu Sultan (a Muslim ruler of Mysore who resisted the British Raj), who took to the underwater life after the suppression of the 1857 Indian Mutiny, in which his close family members were killed by the British."

Although both claims are consistent, the reference to Sikh Wars is misleading. Tipu Sultan had no relation to Sikh Wars. N6n (talk) 09:27, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Contradiction between Wells and Poe.

On Wells' page, it says he and Verne and the 'fathers of Science Fiction'. On this page, it says him and a few others. The others and sources, and on Poe's page, it doesn't even say he's a SF author. --Imagine Wizard (talk • contribs • count) Iway amway Imagineway Izardway. 11:14, 6 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

In a similar vein the Belgian J.-H. Rosny is also described as one of the fathers of science fiction on his page. As he wrote in French perhaps the influence is more relevant to Vernes than even Poe. Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 00:14, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Google Doodle

FYI, today google's doodle is for Jules Verne, and the top result is this page. We're liable to see a lot more traffic (and probably more vandalism) here today. Witty Lama 22:45, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Is it worth mentioning in the article? Anything which gets the Google homepage is pretty important, after all. ~ Wikipedian192 (talk) 05:14, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
It's just a doodle and his 183rd birthday. No importance here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.139.7.56 (talk) 05:44, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

French breton?

What does it mean french breton? Breton is not a nationality since Brittany was annexed by France in 1532. At least you can say that he is a French from Brittany (as i am by the way). For example, would you say for a person from Marseille that he is a French Provencal? No evidently. So i think we should remove this...--Tancrede (talk) 23:07, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like a few weeks ago all mentions of "France" in this article have been replaced with "Brittany" (see edits http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jules_Verne&diff=404006250&oldid=403756531 and http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jules_Verne&diff=404026706&oldid=404015414). Since then most of it has been reverted or reformulated (hence the "french breton"). I agree, this and the rest of these edits could be undone -- 88.183.27.67 (talk) 23:43, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nantes is the traditional home of the "ducs de Bretagne" and the castle in that city was the ducal residence. Otherwise though Nantes has never been closely aligned either with Breton interests or Breton culture, despite attempts by Breton nationalists to reclaim Nantes as a Breton city. Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 00:10, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Breton is a linguistic and ethnic identity. However, I think that maybe it is not relevant unless M. Verne identified as Breton, or could be identified as Breton, elsewise he is just a Frenchman living in Brittany. Does anyone know? 203.49.129.67 (talk) 08:20, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I made the change on the article stating that he is a Frenchman from Brittany.--Tancrede 14:19, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Jules Verne

That category needs a lot of cleanup. There's people in there hardly related to Verne, and locations only loosely connected to him or his works. I'd do it myself, but i don't have the time right now. I'm dropping this notice since it's the Google logo for today.Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 05:49, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Air Travel

" Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before air travel and practical submarines were invented"

Surely air travel (i.e. ballooning) was already invented. The first hot air balloons - Montgolfiers, etc. - were invented in the 18th century. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.159.17.137 (talk) 12:52, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Google

Hes on the front page of google today, this should be added to wikipedia! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.100.218.160 (talk) 14:02, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Please fix From the Earth to the Moon, and a Trip Around It to From the Earth to the Moon to correctly link to the wikipedia article about this book.

(talk) Rytisbalt 14:19, 8 February 2011 (UTC) [reply]

Lack of References

How is this article not flagged for lack of references? There are only two in the entire article, one about him being referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction", and one about his ancestry. There are whole chunks of the article that could be considered quite controversial, such as his reputation in the English-speaking world, his attitude towards Germans, etc., that have no references. What's going on here? --70.124.63.182 (talk) 15:25, 8 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Misuse of Certain Vocabularies

Sorry, don't mean to nitpick, but in the "Literary Debut" section, at the end of the first paragraph, it is written, "[...]geographical details lent an air of verisimilitude." This is a misuse of the word "verisimilitude," which means "the quality of truthfulness; having a likeness to the truth." The use of this word makes its accompanying phrase redundant. A better word to use here is "verity," if you feel like being fancy; "authenticity" would also work.

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