Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours

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                     LE TOUR DU MONDE EN 80 JOURS
                        Etext Production Notes

This is a public domain Etext edition of Jules Verne's Le tour du monde en 80 jours (Around the World in 80 Days).

This Etext is an unabridged reproduction of the original 1873 Hetzel edition. I have corrected several minor typographical errors, but otherwise the text is precisely as published; modern readers will discover a distinct 19th century flavour in the vocabulary and grammar (get ready to remember everything you've forgotten about the passé simple, in particular).

This document is supplied in the ISO 8859/1 Latin-1 character set which includes the accented characters used in French. The ISO 8859/1 character set is a superset of 7-bit ASCII and is the first 256 characters of the 16-bit Unicode set. The following lines should be a sequence of letters, unaccented in the first line, with a variety of accents in subsequent lines. If your computer shows these as anything other than the correctly accented characters, French words in the body of the document will also be incorrect.

   Sans accent: A E I O U a e i o u C c
    Grave: À È Ì Ò Ù à è ì ò ù
    Aigu: Á É Í Ó Ú á é í ó ú
    Circonflexe: Â Ê Î Ô Û â ê î ô û
    Diérèse: Ä Ë Ï Ö Ü ä ë ï ö ü
    Cedille: Ç ç

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