In literature, whose servant was Passepartout?
Jean Passepartout Jean Passepartout Jean Passepartout, a character in Jules Verne's novel "Around the World in Eighty Days" publish in the year 1873, is the French valet of the novel's English main character, Phileas Fogg. His surname translates literally to "goes everywhere", but this is an idiom for "skeleton key" in French. It is also a play on the English word "passport" and the French word "partout" (everywhere). At the beginning of the novel, Passepartout has just been hired by Phileas Fogg after Fogg's previous valet failed to meet his exacting standards on 1st October 1872 at twenty eight minutes past eight.
Jean Passepartout and divides the net proceeds from the journey between Passepartout and Fix - but not without deducting the cost of the gaslight use from Passepartout's share. The character of Passepartout serves several purposes in the narrative — as a point-of-view character for Verne's French readers, and as comic relief, both in his reactions to the strange places and events he encounters, and in a tendency to get trapped, abducted, or, on at least one occasion, left behind. "AROUND THE WORLD IN EIGHTY DAYS " BY JULES VERNE . Jean Passepartout Jean Passepartout, a character in Jules Verne's novel "Around the