European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday september 23, 1994 j faces a no places i the stars and stripes Page 19 1863, Jules Verne hit the Mark from the associated press the automobile the electric chair even a version of the fax machine. Jules Verne anticipated All of them in a pessimistic 1863 novel about the future Long believed lost and now published for the first time. The manuscript of Paris in the 20th Century was rejected by Verne a own publisher Jules Hetzl who found the predictions of a High tech but soulless society too Bleak and far fetched. A a you be undertaken an impossible task. And you Haven to brought it off a Hetzl wrote to the 35-year-old author whose later triumphs a around the world in 80  20,000 leagues under the sea a would make him the Best Selling French author of All time. Verne never revived. The rejected manuscript. After his death in 1905, it was placed in a Strongbox by his son Michel who also mentioned the work in a comprehensive list of All his fathers published and unpublished writings. In 1989, Verne a great grandson Jean decided to Force open the Strongbox before Selling the family House in Toulon. At first he was unsure what he had found but by 1991 experts had verified the manuscripts identity. It was edited into a 218-Page Book Complete with illustrations by a modern Day belgian artist Francois Schuiten and published this week by editions Hachette Recherche Midi. Though Hetzel in his rejection letter criticized Verne a abilities As a Prophet the novel shows him to be remarkably prescient in Many of his predictions about life in Paris in 1963. Nearly a Quarter Century before cars were invented he described gasoline powered automobiles motoring along the French capitals boulevards. He writes of an elevated mass transit system resembling the monorails of today powered by compressed air and running automatically along tracks. His version of today a fax machine employs a Telegraph to Send designs by wire Over Long distances. And 27 years before the first electric chair was used in the United states he describes the electrocution of prisoners at a jail on the outskirts of Paris. A few predictions were off the Mark clothes made of Iron based fibres and computers resembling giant pianos. A a a a a. A v a a. A. For All its technical wonders Verne a City of the future is a grim Philistine place. Interest in classical culture has vanished proper French has degenerated into a horrible Slang a Money and technology Are the Paramount forces in a society run by an All powerful state. The novels hero Michel is a homeless poet who searches desperately in bookstores for works of an a a unknown writer a Victor Hugo. 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