de Graffigny, Henry
Entry updated 6 April 2026. Tagged: Author.
Working name (taken from his birthplace) of Raoul Henri Clément Auguste Antoine Marquis (1863-1934), French author, journalist, aeronaut and amateur scientist, at one time editor-in-chief of the science magazine La science universelle; he wrote numerous adventure novels and popular-science books whose subjects included automobile and aeroplane Transportation. He briefly pretended to the title Marquis de Graffigny, a play on his real surname rather than a serious claim of nobility. His first work of genre interest seems to have been the Scientific Romance De la terre aux étoiles; voyage dans l'infini ["From the Earth to the Stars: Voyage Through Infinity"] (1882). Outside France he is best known for Aventures extraordinaires d'un savant russe ["The Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Scientist"] (1888-1889-1890-1896 4vols) [for publishing details see Checklist] with Georges Le Faure, which appeared in English as The Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Scientist Across the Solar System (trans of the above by Brian Stableford 2009 2vols), a considerably more ambitious Scientific Romance which is discussed in the entry for Le Faure. [DRL]
Raoul Henri Clément Auguste Antoine Marquis
born Graffigny-Chemin, Haute-Marne, France: 28 September 1863
died Septeuil, France: 31 July 1934
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Aventures extraordinaires d'un savant russe (one novel)
- Aventures extraordinaires d'un savant russe: I: La lune ["I: The Moon"] (Paris: Guillaume Édinger, 1888) with Georges Le Faure [introduced by Camille Flammarion: hb/]
- Aventures extraordinaires d'un savant russe: II: Le soleil et les petites planètes ["The Sun and the Small Planets"] (Paris: Guillaume Édinger, 1889) with Georges Le Faure [introduced by Camille Flammarion: hb/]
- Aventures extraordinaires d'un savant russe: III: Les planètes géantes et les comètes ["The Giant Planets and the Comets"] (Paris: Guillaume Édinger, 1890) with Georges Le Faure [introduced by Camille Flammarion: hb/]
- Aventures extraordinaires d'un savant russe: IV: Le désert sidéral (Paris: Arthème Fayard, 1896) with Georges Le Faure [introduced by Camille Flammarion: v: hb/]
- The Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Scientist Across the Solar System (Encino, California: Hollywood Comics/Black Coat Press, 2009) [published in two volumes: trans by Brian Stableford the above four volumes, comprising one novel: pb/Jean-Pierre Normand]
individual titles
- De la terre aux étoiles; voyage dans l'infini (Paris: Librairie des publications nouvelles, 1882) [introduced by Camille Flammarion: in the publisher's Les voyages merveilleux series: binding unknown/]
- Voyage de cinq Américains dans les planètes, roman astronomique ["Voyage of Five Americans Among the Planets, an Astronomical Novel"] (Paris: Librairie Gedalge, 1926) [binding unknown]
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