Facing the Flag

MP3 Audio CD. Facing the Flag or For the Flag is an 1896 chauvinistic narrative by Jules Verne. The story is a fragment of the series, Voyages Extraordinaires or Extraordinary Voyages.

Same as The Begum's Millions, which Jules produced in 1879, it has the subject of France and the whole universe endangered by a great armament, which is known today as a weaponry of ethnic cleansing with the danger eventually defeated by the power of French nationalism.

It can be treated as among the earliest narratives considering issues which were to turn out controlling half a thousand years after its release in the Second World War and the Cold War: illustrious researchers exploring new weaponries of massive deleterious force, whose thorough exertion may indisputably wipe out the universe. The rival among sovereignty to acquire shattering buildups of those arms and attempts of other countries to coalesce the nuclear alliance.

Jules Gabriel Verne was a French fictionist, poet, and librettist. Jules was born to illiberal parents in the dockyard of Nantes, where he was taught to be like his father as a member of the bar, but gave up being a lawyer so as to contribute for periodicals and the theater platform. He worked together with writer Pierre-Jules Hetzel that brought to the handiwork of the Voyages extraordinaires, a largely famous series of meticulously looked into scenic stories such as Journey to the Center of the Earth in 1864,Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea in 1870, and Around the World in Eighty Days in 1873.

He is broadly thought-out as a chief belletristic novelist in France and much of Europe, where he has had a huge esteem on the lettered experimental and on hypnagogic