Talk:Brutus de Villeroi

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Did you know... that Brutus de Villeroi was a French engineer who created the USS Alligator, the U.S. Navy's first submarine, in 1862?

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Twenty Thousand Leagues Claim

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In 1842, de Villeroi was reputedly a professor for drawing and mathematics at the Saint-Donatien Junior Seminary in Nantes, where Jules Verne was also a student, leading to speculation he may have inspired Verne's conceptual design for the Nautilus in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; however, no evidence for Villeroi's employment at Saint-Donatien has yet been found, and no direct link between the two men has ever been established.

Vern himself says he was inspired by the design of the Plongeur, A model of Plongeur was displayed at the 1867 Exposition Universelle, where it was studied by Jules Verne,[6] who used it as an inspiration[7][8] and 3 years later published his novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.[9] Since this article goes on to say that there's no actual evidence that de Villeroi influenced Verne I would argue for removing this paragraph. Xenomorph erotica (talk) 12:34, 21 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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