Clovis Dardentor
Clovis Dardentor is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne. The novel was first published on 19 November 1896 by the publisher Pierre -Jules Hetzel under the French title Clovis Dardentor. The first German -language edition was published in 1897 under the title Clovis Dardentor. The English title of the novel is Clovis Dardentor.
Action
The two young Frenchmen Jean Taconnat and Marcel Lornan are on the way to Oran, where they want to stand for economic reasons in the local French Army organizations. Due to family problems and lack of support from relatives or friends they see no other way to secure their economic existence. On the boat trip to Oran they learn the wealthy industrialist small Clovis Dardentor know. This tells the two friends that he has in all professional success no heir for his fortune. The two army contender comes the glorious idea that Clovis Dardentor to adopt her. Thus, their future would be elegantly covered. Clovis Dardentor who does not recognize the ostensible intentions of the two traveling companions referenced, wide on the French legislation. One of the most important conditions for an adoption is that the adoptee 's adoptive father would have saved his life. The two friends decide Dardentor not to deviate from the side to wait for the opportunity to save this life.
The first stop on the ship's passage is Mallorca. There is a first opportunity for the two friends to lifesaver for Dardentor results to be. During a trip in the surroundings of Palma go way back on a downhill winding road the horses with their team through. But they can not save the life Dardentor, instead it has to rescue the two friends.
The next leg of the journey is then Oran. In the vicinity of the town there is another trip. The army will have to wait on the two friends. But again, fail saving life plans of Jean and Marcel. First Dardentor saves one friend at a fire in the train 's life, he must save the other from drowning. The two would-be adoptive sons do not come to a suitable opportunity. Finally, the young Louise Elissane Clovis Dardentor saves the life. She shoots a lion attacking Dardentor. Marcel Lornans then marries Louise Elissane into which he has fallen in love.