Jules Verne, the curiosities of his life that will surprise you

In 1888, Verne decided to take an active role in the municipal policy. He was elected councilor appearing in his city of residence for the Socialist Party. Over fifteen years he proposed a series of improvements to his city at his own expense. His area of ​​activity was Education, Museums and Festivals. One of his most important achievements was the construction of a circus, where adaptations of his works were performed as well as other regular shows in the circus world. In his time he was considered socially as a good provincial bourgeois, who collaborated with the Socialist Party, a bourgeois socialism and very conservative in terms of customs.

She studied law at her father's wish but when she refused to study a career that she did not like, her father stopped giving her money. Her few savings were used to buy books and she also spent long hours in the library. Her hardships and hunger caused her nervous problems that caused facial paralysis and jerks, she also had intestinal problems. She came to write a letter to her mother with the following content. ;

You are probably aware, my dear mother, that there is a hiatus that separates both buttocks and it is nothing but the end of the intestine. (...) Now, in my case, the rectum, prey to a very natural impatience, has a tendency to slip out and, consequently, not to retain its very pleasant content as hermetically as would be desirable. (...) serious inconvenience for a young man whose intention is to mingle in society and not in dirt. Because to say it once, my ass does not close well.

This is how the author sees people according to their nationality in the vernian literature, which is reflected in his books:

• French: brave and leaders, logical because they are the compatriots of the author himself.
• English: phlegmatic and very enclosed in their world. They are often ridiculed. It also outlines them in another positive aspect as great heroes in travel novels (Five weeks in a balloon, Around the world in eighty days...). In others they are defined as merciless colonialists.
• Russians: honorable and trustworthy. Workers, possibly influenced by the many Russian aristocrats who frequented or lived in Paris.
• Jews: They are generally defined as greedy, which gave rise to criticism from French Jews who described the author as anti-Semite.
• Spanish: He barely talks about them in his work, he didn't like them. He defines them as lazy.

It is believed that the reason why the French writer despised this sector was due to experiences when he worked in the stock market.