Jules Verne the Sea", 1869); and "Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours" ("Around the World in Eighty Days"), which first appeared in "Le Temps" in 1872. Verne could now live on his writings. But most of his wealth came from the stage adaptations of "Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours" (1874) and "Michel Strogoff" (1876), which he wrote with Adolphe d'Ennery. In 1867, Verne bought a small ship, the "Saint-Michel", which he successively replaced with the "Saint-Michel II" and the "Saint-Michel III" as his financial situation improved. On board the "Saint-Michel III", he sailed around Europe. After his first novel,
Le diable à quatre (opera) reverses the spell. Le diable à quatre (opera) Le diable à quatre ("The Devil to Pay") is an opéra comique in three acts by Christoph Willibald Gluck. The French-language libretto is by Michel-Jean Sedaine and Pierre Baurans, after a translation by Claude-Pierre Patu of the 1731 ballad opera by Charles Coffey entitled "The Devil to Pay, or The Wives Metamorphos’d". It was first performed at Laxenburg on May 28, 1759. The work was a popular success. Joseph Haydn used a melody from it, ""Je n’aimais pas le tabac beaucoup" (I didn’t like tobacco much)" in the first movement of his