Jules-Descartes Férat was a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 artist and illustrator, famous for his portrayals of factories and their workers.

He illustrated the books of many known authors, such as Jules Verne

Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , A Journey to the Center of the Earth , and Around the World in Eighty Days...

, Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective...

, and Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

Victor-Marie Hugo was a Frenchpoet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France....

. Some critics consider his illustrations for Jules Verne's novel The Mysterious Island

The Mysterious Island

The Mysterious Island is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The original edition, published by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Jules Férat. The novel is a sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, though thematically it is...

to be his greatest masterpieces. He also contributed to the illustrated press including 'L'Illustration' and L'Univers Illustré'.

Jules Verne

novels

• (1871) A Floating City
  A Floating City
  A Floating City is an adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne first published in 1871. It tells of a woman who, on board the ship Great Eastern with her husband, finds that the man she loves is also on board.-External links:...
  
  , 44 illustration
• (1872) The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa
  The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa
  The Adventures of Three Russians and Three Englishmen in South Africa is a novel by Jules Verne published in 1872.-Plot introduction:Three Russian and three English scientists depart to South Africa to measure the meridian...
  
  , 53 illustrations
• (1873) The Fur Country
  The Fur Country
  The Fur Country is an adventure novel by Jules Verne in The Extraordinary Voyages series, first published in 1873. The novel was serialized in Magasin d’Éducation et de Récréation from September 1872 to December 1873. The two-volume first original French edition and the first illustrated...
  
  , 103 illustrations (with Alfred Quesnay de Beaurépaire)
• (1875) The Mysterious Island
  The Mysterious Island
  The Mysterious Island is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The original edition, published by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Jules Férat. The novel is a sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, though thematically it is...
  
  , 152 illustrations
• (1876) Michael Strogoff
  Michael Strogoff
  Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar is a novel written by Jules Verne in 1876. Critics consider it one of Verne's best books. Unlike some of Verne's other famous novels, it is not science fiction, but a scientific phenomenon is a plot device. The book was later adapted to a play, by Verne...
  
  , 91 illustrations
• (1877) The Child of the Cavern
  The Child of the Cavern
  The Child of the Cavern is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in April 1877. The first UK edition was published as The Child of the Cavern; or Strange Doings Underground, in October 1877 by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington of London.Alternative English titles for this...
  
  , 45 illusrations

short stories

• (1871) The Blockade Runners
  The Blockade Runners
  "The Blockade Runners" is a 1865 short story by Jules Verne In 1871 it was published in single volume together with novel A Floating City as a part of the Voyages Extraordinaires series...
  
  , 17 illustrations
• (1875) Martin Paz, 9 illustrations
• (1876) A Drama in Mexico, 6 illustrations

External links

• The Illustrators of Jules Verne’s Voyages Extraordinaires