Un billet de loterie (le numéro 9672). Frritt-Flacc

After stowing away on an ocean liner at the age of twelve - and nearly getting away with it - Jules Verne swore to his parents that his future travels would be confined to his imagination. His readers are universally thankful that he kept his word and created such inventive tales as Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea and Journey to the Center of the Earth.