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 Monde spreading anti-American and pro-Soviet disinformation to the French media. The archive identified two senior "Le Monde" journalists and several contributors who were used in the operations (see also the article on Russian influence operations in France). Michel Legris, a former journalist with the paper, wrote "Le Monde tel qu'il est" ("Le Monde as it is") in 1976. According to him, the journal minimized the atrocities committed by the Cambodian Khmer Rouge. In their 2003 book titled "La Face cachée du Monde" ("The Hidden face of "Le Monde""), authors Pierre Péan and Philippe Cohen alleged that Colombani and then-editor Edwy Plenel