The Secret Codes of Jules Verne’s Grave

Visitors who visit the tomb today can watch as the awe-inspiring figure of Jules Verne emerges from his tomb, breaking free from his shroud and smashing the tombstone.

Rachel Holmes
5 min readJul 3, 2023
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What secrets does Jules Verne’s tomb hold?

Why are there esoteric symbols on his tomb?

What is hidden under that tombstone?

Verne’s funerary monument, located in La Madeleine’s (Amiens) cemetery, is extraordinary.

It perfectly captures the magical, secret, esoteric initiate and initiator Verne.

Life

Jules Verne, the father of sci-fi and H.G. Wells, was born in Nantes on February 8, 1828.

Throughout his life, he would make many trips, most aboard one of the three ships he owned, visiting places and cities he had mentioned or included in his books.

One such trip took him to Vigo in 1878, a city that had appeared eight years earlier in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

For four days, between June 1 and 4, he stayed in the city, touring it and attending various festive events, in a stay that he found welcoming, as he would later write to his friend Jules Hetzel.

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