| ID | 020936 |
| Call Number | 843.7/VER |
| Title Proper | Les cinq cents millions de la Bégum |
| Other Title Information | Niveau 1: 700 mots |
| Language | FRE |
| Author | Verne, Jules |
| Publication | Paris, CLE International, 2006. |
| Description | 63p Black spine |
| Series | Lectures CLE en francaiş facile |
| Note | Two men receive the news that they are part-inheritors to a vast fortune due to being the last surviving descendants of a French soldier-of-fortune who many years before settled in India and married the immensely rich widow of one of its native princes – the begum of the title.
One of the inheritors is a gentle French physician, Dr. Sarrasin, who has long been concerned with the unsanitary conditions of the European cities. He decides to use his share of the inheritance to establish a utopian model city which would be constructed and maintained with public health as the primary concern of its government.
The other inheritor is a far from gentle, German scientist Prof. Schultze – very stereotypically presented as an arrogant militarist and racist, who becomes increasingly power-mad in the course of the book |
| Standard Number | 9782090317978 |
| Price. Qualification | Rs.340(Pb) |
| Classification Number | 843.7 |
| Key Words | IBDP ; French literature |