Labels:bar | bulletin board | bus | door | earth | grass | person | reckoner | road | rock | sky | stairs | stairway OCR: Begum's Fortune by Jules Verne: Short based on the Franco- Prussian War written and published Jules Verme in 1879 under the title Les Cing Cents Millions de Begum (English version, 1880 The tale pits a fictional German citadel (Stahlstadt) against an idealized garden city called France ville (Paris). The corrupt farmily which arms the civ f steel is transparent reference to the Krupps who manufactured wea pons for the Prussian Beeum ules navel idea alized family tvenmnen