The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?

6 Rue Jean-Jacques-Rousseau where the family's youngest child Marie was born in 1842. Verne is one writer sometimes called "The Father of Science Fiction" as are H. In the same year Verne entered another religious school the Petit Séminaire de Saint-Donatien as a lay student.

He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) From the Earth to the Moon (1865) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne is the second most translated author in the world (following Agatha Christie) and his works appear in more translations per year than those of any other writer.