''The Flight to France'' (french: Le Chemin de France,

1887 Events January–March * January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the Académie Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher. * January 20 ** The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl ...

) is an

adventure novel Adventure fiction is a type of fiction that usually presents danger, or gives the reader a sense of excitement. Some adventure fiction also satisfies the literary definition of romance fiction. History In the Introduction to the ''Encycloped ...

written by Jules Verne about a fictional French Army Captain Natalis Delpierre, with a setting in the year 1792 just before the

French Revolutionary Wars The French Revolutionary Wars (french: Guerres de la Révolution française) were a series of sweeping military conflicts lasting from 1792 until 1802 and resulting from the French Revolution. They pitted France against Britain, Austria, Prussia ...

. Several English language editions were published with the subtitle, ''The Flight to France; or, The Memoirs of a Dragoon. A Tale of the Day of Dumouriez.''

Publication history

*1888, UK, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 231 pp., First UK edition *1889, USA, New York: New York, G. Munro, 158 pp., First United States edition

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Le Chemin de France
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Jules Verne Collection
1887 French novels Novels by Jules Verne {{1880s-adventure-novel-stub