| Jean Passepartout | |
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Real Name |
Jean Passepartout |
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First Appearance |
Around the World in Eighty Days (1872) |
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Original Publisher |
Le Temps (as serial), Pierre-Jules Hetzel (book form) |
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Created by |
Jules Verne |
Origin[]
Jean Passepartout is a fictional character in Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days, published in 1873. He is the French valet of the novel's English main character, Phileas Fogg. His surname translates literally to "goes everywhere", but “passepartout” is also an idiom meaning "skeleton key" in French. It can also be understood as a play on the English word passport—or its French equivalent passeport.
Public Domain Appearances[]
All published appearances of Jean Passepartout from before January 1, 1931 are public domain in the US.
Some notable appearances are listed below:
Public Domain Literary Appearances[]
- Around the World in Eighty Days (1872)
- The Extraordinary Voyages of Saturnino Farandola, in the Five or Six Parts of the World and in All Countries Known and Unknown to Mr Jules Verne (1879)
Public Domain Theatrical Appearances[]
- Around the World in Eighty Days (1874)
Public Domain Film Appearances[]
- Le avventure straordinarissime di Saturnino Farandola (1913)
- Die Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen (1923)
- Around the World in 18 days (1923)