Les Cinq Cents Millions De La Bégum by Jules Verne
"Les Cinq Cents Millions De La Bégum" by Jules Verne is a novel published in 1879. Two men inherit a massive fortune from a wealthy Bégum—a French doctor and a German professor. The Frenchman builds France-Ville, an ideal city based on hygiene and modern urban planning. The German constructs Stahlstadt, a steel fortress dedicated to heavy industry. When Marcel, a young Alsatian, infiltrates the German's city as a spy, he discovers a
sinister plot that threatens France-Ville's very existence. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Verne, Jules, 1828-1905 |
|---|---|
| Title | Les Cinq Cents Millions De La Bégum |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Begum%27s_Fortune fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Cinq_Cents_Millions_de_la_B%C3%A9gum |
| Credits | Norm Wolcott |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 69.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Science fiction |
| Subject | Oregon -- Fiction |
| Subject | Distribution of decedents' estates -- Fiction |
| Subject | New towns -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 4968 |
| Release Date | Jan 1, 2004 |
| Most Recently Updated | Jun 3, 2023 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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