2 books by Hippolyte Mettais
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Overview: Hippolyte Mettais (1812-? ) French doctor and author whose L’An 5865 ou Paris dans 4000 Ans (1865; trans Brian Stableford as The Year 5865 2012) is a Ruins and Futurity tale whose narrator – four millennia hence, after numerous Disasters have almost totally obscured the deep past – conceives of Paris in terms of the Lost World novel. As is typical of this category of tale, elements of spoof alternate with Satire. Paris avant le Déluge (1866; trans Brian Stableford as Paris Before the Deluge 2014), clearly written in conjunction with the previous tale, is set four millennia into the antediluvian past, with Atlantis still extant, and the founding of Paris soon to occur.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
The Year 5865 (French science fiction Book 77) by Hippolyte Mettais, Brian Stableford (Adapted by, Translator)
It was a time of gods, demigods and genies. It was China before Sione-Fine, Egypt before Mehmet Ali; it was New Cosaquia before Nhoel I. Happy times! Our poetry lives on it, our most graceful literature stems from it. It was the time of legends, of heroic songs, when men were giants, ogres and slayers of armies. It was the time of our Sheikh Mansour the Invincible, who destroyed a whole army with a single sweep of his scimitar. That is ancient history.
The Year 5865 was published in 1865. It is a remarkable novel, consisting of a first-person narrative related by a character living 4000 years hence, after various disasters have obliterated almost all the documents relating to the world with which we are familiar. In consequence, the narrator’s knowledge of the reader’s world is severely limited and densely clouded by myth.
Hippolyte Mettais’ innovative literary method in attempting to interpolate didactic material into a melodrama provides an anticipatory echo of a future subgenre of popular fiction: the "lost race" story. But unlike H. Rider Haggard’s She (1887), Abraham Merritt’s Dwellers in the Mirage (1932) and other classics, here, it is not present-day explorers who find relics of an ancient civilization but futuristic explorers who find echoes of ours.
A remarkable pioneer of futuristic fantasy, The Year 5865 is a uniquely intriguing classic of the genre, log ripe for rediscovery.
Paris Before the Deluge (French science fiction Book 128) by Hippolyte Mettais, Brian Stableford (Adapted by, Translator)
There was no longer anyone alive in Atlantis, nor in the whole of Europe, except the guests of Chephren’s ark. There was only them to repopulate those vast regions, to reanimate Atlantis, to reconstitute its greatness, its wealth and its glory.
In Paris Before the Deluge (1866), Hippolyte Mettais, the author of The Year 5865, displays his imaginative reach, creating a novel that incorporates the lost city of Atlantis, the biblical story of the Flood, and the founding of Paris,
Set more than four thousand years in the past, Paris Before the Deluge is a lesson about the rise and fall of civilizations with its credible mixture of exotic locales, spurned lovers, power grabs, lost dynasties and the constant quest for the favor of ancient gods.
Within this mythological antediluvian world, Mettais unfolds a tale of religious and revolutionary sentiments that remains an important document in the history of French speculative fiction as well as the modern development of the Atlantis legend.
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