Having dismissed his former valet, for bringing him shaving water at 29☌ instead of 30☌, Fogg hires a Frenchman by the name of Jean Passepartout as a replacement. Overall, Phileas Fogg always lives a life in clockwork precision and is a passionate whist player. He’s a rich bachelor, around 40 years of age, but nobody knows the sources of his fortune. The English gentlemen Phileas Fogg lives at No. XX: In Which Fix Comes Face to Face with Phileas Fogg Jules Verne, In Eighty Days Around the World (1873), Ch. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions.” “It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. It is one of Jules Verne‘s most acclaimed stories, where Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days only on a £20,000 wager set by his friends at the London Reform Club. On January 30, 1873, Jules Verne‘s famous novel ‘ Around the World in 80 Days‘ ( Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) was published by Pierre-Jules Hetzel in Paris, France. on Wednesday, October 2, 1872, and is due back at the Reform Club at the same time 80 days later, Saturday, December 21, 1872.Jules Verne (1828-1905), photo by Nadar, 1890 Accompanied by Passepartout, he leaves London by train at 8:45 P.M. He accepts a wager for £20,000 (equal to about £1.6 million today) from his fellow club members, which he will receive if he makes it around the world in 80 days. At the Reform Club, Fogg gets involved in an argument over an article in The Daily Telegraph stating that with the opening of a new railway section in India, it is now possible to travel around the world in 80 days. Having dismissed his former valet, James Foster, for bringing him shaving water at 84 ☏ (29 ☌) instead of 86 ☏ (30 ☌), Fogg hires a Frenchman by the name of Jean Passepartout as a replacement. Very little can be said about his social life other than that he is a member of the Reform Club. Despite his wealth, Fogg lives a modest life with habits carried out with mathematical precision. Fogg is a rich English gentleman living in solitude.
The story starts in London on Tuesday, October 1, 1872. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (roughly £1.6 million today) set by his friends at the Reform Club. Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873.
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