Jules Lermina (1839–1915) was a French writer. He began his career as a journalist in 1859. He was arrested for his socialist political opinions, and received

Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...

's support. He published a number of

Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe (; Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is wide ...

-inspired collections, ''Histoires Incroyables'' ncredible Tales(1885), ''Nouvelles Histoires Incroyables'' ew Incredible Tales(1888) and a short novel, ''L'Élixir de Vie'' he Elixir of Life(1890) (translated by

Brian Stableford Brian Michael Stableford (born 25 July 1948) is a British academic, critic and science fiction writer who has published more than 70 novels. His earlier books were published under the name Brian M. Stableford, but more recent ones have dropped ...

and included in ''Panic in Paris''). ''Le Secret des Zippelius'' he Secret of the Zippelius(1893) (translated by Brian Stableford as ''The Secret of Zippelius'' (2011) ) featured the controlled disintegration of water. His two-volume ''La Bataille de Strasbourg'' he Battle of Strasbourg(1895) was one of the first novels on the theme of the

yellow peril The Yellow Peril (also the Yellow Terror and the Yellow Specter) is a racist, racial color terminology for race, color metaphor that depicts the peoples of East Asia, East and Southeast Asia as an existential danger to the Western world. As a ...

. In ''L'Effrayante Aventure'' anic in Paris(1910) (translated by Brian Stableford, ), Lermina used

Bulwer-Lytton Bulwer-Lytton is a surname, and may refer to: * Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–1873), novelist and politician * Rosina Bulwer Lytton (1802–1882), feminist writer and wife of Edward Bulwer-Lytton * Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of ...

vril ''The Coming Race'' is a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, published anonymously in 1871. It has also been published as ''Vril, the Power of the Coming Race''. Some readers have believed the account of a superior subterranean master race and th ...

-force to create a vril-powered flying machine. The novel also features the resurrection of

prehistoric Prehistory, also known as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominins 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use of ...

creatures frozen in ice in caverns under Paris. ''Mystère-Ville'' (1905) (translated by Brian Stableford as ''Mysteryville'', ), written under the pseudonym of William Cobb, and illustrated by

Albert Robida Albert Robida (14 May 1848 – 11 October 1926) was a French illustrator, etcher, lithographer, caricaturist, and novelist. He edited and published '' La Caricature'' magazine for 12 years. Through the 1880s, he wrote an acclaimed trilogy of fut ...

, was about

Protestants Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century against what its followers perceived to b ...

who had fled France and created a secret, futuristic city in a hidden Chinese valley. Lermina also penned a proto-

Tarzan Tarzan (John Clayton II, Viscount Greystoke) is a fictional character, an archetypal feral child raised in the African jungle by the Mangani great apes; he later experiences civilization, only to reject it and return to the wild as a heroic adv ...

novel, ''To-Ho le Tueur d'Or'' (1905) (translated by Georges T. Dodds as ''To-Ho and the Gold Destroyers'' , two sequels to the popular classic ''

The Count of Monte-Cristo ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (french: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel written by French author Alexandre Dumas (''père'') completed in 1844. It is one of the author's more popular works, along with ''The Three Musketeers''. Li ...

'': ''Le Fils de Monte-Cristo'' (1881) (that in English was divided in two books: The Wife of Monte Cristo and The Son of Monte Cristo), and ''Le Trésor de Monte-Cristo'' he Treasure of Monte-Cristo(1885); and ''Les Mystères de New York'' he Mysteries of New York(1874), also written under the pseudonym of William Cobb. He also created the indomitable Toto Fouinard, whose adventures were serialized in 1908–09.

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