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"
Scarcely
!
"
"
No
more
do
I
,
despite
some
remarkable
recorded
facts
of
history
.
For
instance
,
during
an
epidemic
in
1693
,
a
large
number
of
persons
died
at
the
very
moment
of
an
eclipse
.
The
celebrated
Bacon
always
fainted
during
an
eclipse
.
Charles
VI
relapsed
six
times
into
madness
during
the
year
1399
,
sometimes
during
the
new
,
sometimes
during
the
full
moon
.
Gall
observed
that
insane
persons
underwent
an
accession
of
their
disorder
twice
in
every
month
,
at
the
epochs
of
new
and
full
moon
.
In
fact
,
numerous
observations
made
upon
fevers
,
somnambulisms
,
and
other
human
maladies
,
seem
to
prove
that
the
moon
does
exercise
some
mysterious
influence
upon
man
.
"
"
But
the
how
and
the
wherefore
?
"
asked
Barbicane
.
"
Well
,
I
can
only
give
you
the
answer
which
Arago
borrowed
from
Plutarch
,
which
is
nineteen
centuries
old
.
'
Perhaps
the
stories
are
not
true
!
'
"
In
the
height
of
his
triumph
,
Michel
Ardan
had
to
encounter
all
the
annoyances
incidental
to
a
man
of
celebrity
.
Managers
of
entertainments
wanted
to
exhibit
him
.
Barnum
offered
him
a
million
dollars
to
make
a
tour
of
the
United
States
in
his
show
.
As
for
his
photographs
,
they
were
sold
of
all
size
,
and
his
portrait
taken
in
every
imaginable
posture
.
More
than
half
a
million
copies
were
disposed
of
in
an
incredibly
short
space
of
time
.
But
it
was
not
only
the
men
who
paid
him
homage
,
but
the
women
as
well
.
He
might
have
married
well
a
hundred
times
over
,
if
he
had
been
willing
to
settle
in
life
.
The
old
maids
,
in
particular
,
of
forty
years
and
upward
,
and
dry
in
proportion
,
devoured
his
photographs
day
and
night
.
They
would
have
married
him
by
hundreds
,
even
if
he
had
imposed
upon
them
the
condition
of
accompanying
him
into
space
.
He
had
,
however
,
no
intention
of
transplanting
a
race
of
Franco-Americans
upon
the
surface
of
the
moon
.
He
therefore
declined
all
offers
.
As
soon
as
he
could
withdraw
from
these
somewhat
embarrassing
demonstrations
,
he
went
,
accompanied
by
his
friends
,
to
pay
a
visit
to
the
Columbiad
.
He
was
highly
gratified
by
his
inspection
,
and
made
the
descent
to
the
bottom
of
the
tube
of
this
gigantic
machine
which
was
presently
to
launch
him
to
the
regions
of
the
moon
.
It
is
necessary
here
to
mention
a
proposal
of
J.
T.
Maston
's
.
When
the
secretary
of
the
Gun
Club
found
that
Barbicane
and
Nicholl
accepted
the
proposal
of
Michel
Ardan
,
he
determined
to
join
them
,
and
make
one
of
a
smug
party
of
four
.
So
one
day
he
determined
to
be
admitted
as
one
of
the
travelers
.
Barbicane
,
pained
at
having
to
refuse
him
,
gave
him
clearly
to
understand
that
the
projectile
could
not
possibly
contain
so
many
passengers
.
Maston
,
in
despair
,
went
in
search
of
Michel
Ardan
,
who
counseled
him
to
resign
himself
to
the
situation
,
adding
one
or
two
arguments
ad
hominem
.
"
You
see
,
old
fellow
,
"
he
said
,
"
you
must
not
take
what
I
say
in
bad
part
;
but
really
,
between
ourselves
,
you
are
in
too
incomplete
a
condition
to
appear
in
the
moon
!
"
