Fix spends the first half of the book trying to delay Fogg's journey to keep him in British territory, However, after Fogg reaches America, Fix helps Fogg complete his bet in order to get him back to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, where he will be under British jurisdiction and Fix can arrest him (while still suspicious that Fogg will run off and go into hiding somewhere on the journey). He sets out with his French servant Jean Passepartout to win the wager, unaware that he is being followed by a detective named Fix, who suspects Fogg of having robbed the Bank of England. Fogg makes a wager of £20,000 (£2.4 million in 2022) with members of London's Reform Club that he can circumnavigate the world in 80 days or fewer. Having fired a servant for providing him with shaving water at a slightly incorrect temperature, he hires Jean Passepartout as a new servant. Fictional biography įogg is a man of independent means and is a gentleman who is "exact", as in has a perfect and a routine life right down to the number of steps he walks to the temperature of his shaving water. Inspirations for the character were the American entrepreneur George Francis Train and American writer and adventurer William Perry Fogg. Phileas Fogg ( / ˈ f ɪ l i ə s ˈ f ɒ ɡ/) is the protagonist in the 1872 Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days. Phileas Fogg, illustration by Alphonse de Neuville and/or Léon Benett (1873)
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