Jules Verne House, Amiens, Picardy, France
This house symbolised social success in the new Henriville suburb, a bourgeois district that had only just been built, south of Amiens.The railway had replaced the old city walls and an incredible surge of modernity was breathing new life into Amiens! Jules Verne could see the railway tracks from his window as the house was right next door! The sound of trains didn’t bother him, it reminded him of his youthful years spent in Paris.
This attractive bourgeois house fulfilled all the criteria for a fine residence of the period, beginning with the carriage entrance … for carriages to pass through! Go through this entrance and you’ll find yourself in the 19th century, a time of almost tangible romanticism. The superb canopy of glass and iron, surrounded by pretty mosaics, affords a glimpse of the winter garden, “the height of fashion” at that time!
Jules and Honorine lived in this large house for 18 years, up to the year 1900. Today every room is given over to the writer’s life.
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