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
Last Update Jun 3, 2023
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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