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[[File:20000 squid holding sailor.jpg|thumb|upright|An illustration from the original 1870 edition of ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeaSeas]]'' by [[Jules Verne]]]]

The French novelist [[Victor Hugo]]'s ''Les Travailleurs de la mer'' (1866, "[[Toilers of the Sea]]") discusses the man-eating octopus, the kraken of legend, called ''pieuvre'' by the locals of the [[Channel Islands]] (in the [[Guernésiais|Guernsey dialect]], etc.).<ref name="cahill"/><ref name="hugo1866"/>{{Refn|group="lower-alpha"|Hugo also produced an ink and wash sketch of the octopus.<ref name="weiss"/>}} Hugo's octopus later influenced [[Jules Verne]]'s depiction of the kraken in ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeaSeas]]'',<ref name="bhattacharjee"/> though Verne also drew on the real-life encounter the French ship ''[[French corvette Alecton|Alecton]]'' had with what was probably a [[giant squid]].{{sfnp|Nigg|2014|p=147}} It has been noted that Verne indiscriminately interchanged ''kraken'' with ''calmar'' (squid) and ''poulpe'' (octopus).<ref name=miller&walter/>