Verne

[vurn; French vern] /vɜrn; French vɛrn/
noun
1.
Jules
[joolz;; French zhyl] /dʒulz;; French ʒül/ (Show IPA),
1828–1905, French novelist.
2.
a male given name, form of Vernon.

La Verne

[luh vurn] /lə ˈvɜrn/
noun
1.
a town in S California.
British Dictionary definitions for Verne

Verne

/vɜːn; French vɛrn/
noun
1.
Jules (ʒyl). 1828–1905, French writer, esp of science fiction, such as Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (1870) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)