On 9 March 1886, as Verne was coming home, his twenty-five-year-old nephew, Gaston, shot at him twice with a pistol.
Po njegovem prvem romanu so večino njegovih zgodb objavili v nadaljevanjih v "Magazine d'Éducation et de Récréation", Hetzelovem dvotedniku, preden so jih objavili v knjigah.