Paris in the Twentieth Century

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Paris in the Twentieth Century

novel by Verne

Also known as: “Paris au XXième siècle”

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In science fiction: Jules Verne
…Paris au XXième siècle (Paris in the Twentieth Century)—written in 1863 but not published until 1994—is set in the distant 1960s and contains some of his most accurate prognostications: elevated trains, automobiles, facsimile machines, and computer-like banking machines. Nevertheless, the book’s depiction of a dark and bitter dystopian world…
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