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From: International Herald Tribune
Date: 20050325
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International Herald Tribune
03-25-2005
PARIS: According to the ''Matin,'' M. Jules Verne dies at Amiens at ten minutes past three o'clock yesterday afternoon [March 24], after having been in a comatose state since noon. The members of the author's family were present. The immediate cause of death was general paralysis. His fame rests chiefly on his scientific romances, the first of which appeared in 1863, under the title of ''Cinq Semaines en Ballon.'' Its success led the author to produce many similar works, now numbering nearly seventy, of which several have been translated into English ...

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