Jean Passepartout
Jean Passepartout (French: [ʒɑ̃ paspaʁtu]) 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.
| Jean Passepartout | |
|---|---|
| Around the World in Eighty Days character | |
Jean Passepartout by Alphonse de Neuville & Léon Benett (1873) | |
| First appearance | Around the World in Eighty Days |
| Created by | Jules Verne |
| In-universe information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Valet |
| Nationality | French |
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