Engraving (by Emile Bayard) of Jules Verne's book “” Around the Moon”” (Hetzel edition/Voyages extraordinaire...

Engraving (by Emile Bayard) of Jules Verne's book “” Around the Moon”” (Hetzel edition/Voyages extraordinaire 1870): description of the moon drawn with a young woman's body (text by J. Verne): “”... stuffed surface, cracked, a real skimmer, worthy of the unpoetic qualification given to it by the English, of green cheese, it is at That is how the Anglo-Saxons, in the 19th century, treat the beautiful Diana, the blonde Phobe, the kind Isis, the charming Astarte, the queen of nights, the daughter of Latona and Jupiter, the young sister of the radiant Apollo!”