Jules Verne (1828-1905), one of the founding authors in the realm of science fiction, who knew long before most others did just how important electricity was going to be. He was also a great travel-writer, although, admittedly, many of the landscapes he describes are imagined ones.
A fairly easy text for practice reading French, although it does involve a nice array of past tenses (simple past, pluperfect, and imperfect). From Jules Verne’s Vingt mille lieues sous la mer (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)
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Why art thou sad, my Beppo?"
Mad Beppo (aka the Professor) is neither sad nor mad. He delights in French, poetry, film, and Baroque music. More about Mad Beppo…