Merveilleux scientifique is a literary genre that developed in France from the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. Akin to today's science fiction, this literature of scientific imagination revolves around themes such as mad scientists and their extraordinary inventions, lost worlds, exploration of the Solar System, catastrophes and the coming of supermen.
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Place of Origin Notable ExampleLe Docteur Lerne, sous-dieu by Maurice Renard 1 Defining TraitNovel set within a rational framework, built on the alteration of a scientific law 1 Connections
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1. Merveilleux scientifique - Wikipedia
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a literary genre that developed in France
Popular literature, A generation of writers in love with scientific conjecture
the author presents extreme human transplants in Le Docteur Lerne, sous-dieu
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set within a rational framework, relies on the alteration of a scientific law around which the plot is built
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