Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours

Name: Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours
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Author: Jules Verne

Around the World in Eighty Days

by Jules Verne

Fogg’s precise routines hint at an adventure around the world.

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Original language: FrenchLevel: Advanced3,722 characters · ≈ 5 minSource: Project Gutenberg

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Enl'année1872In the year 1872lamaisonthe houseportantbearinglenuméro7the number 7deSavillerowof Saville-rowBurlingtonGardensBurlington Gardensmaisonhousedanslaquellein whichSheridanSheridanmourutdieden1814in 1814étaithabitéewas inhabitedparbyPhileasFoggPhileas Foggesqesq.

In the year 1872, the house at number 7 Saville-row, Burlington Gardens—the house in which Sheridan died in 1814—was lived in by Phileas Fogg, esq.

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He was one of the most strange and most noticed members of the Reform-Club of London, though he seemed to take as his task to do nothing that could draw attention.

Àtol'unonedesof theplusgrandsgreatestorateursoratorsquiwhohonorenthonorl'AngleterreEnglandsuccédaitsucceededdoncthen/socePhileasFoggthis Phileas Foggpersonnageénigmatiqueenigmatic figuredontof whomonone/peoplenesavaitrienknew nothingsinonqueexcept thatc'étaithe wasunafortgalanthommevery gallant manetandl'unonedesof theplusbeauxfinest/most handsomegentlemengentlemendeoflahautesociétéanglaiseEnglish high society

After one of the greatest speakers who honor England, then came after this Phileas Fogg, a man of mystery, of whom nothing was known, except that he was a very fine man and one of the most handsome gentlemen of English high society.

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People said that he looked like Byron—by the head, for he was perfect as to the feet—but a Byron with mustache and side whiskers, a calm Byron, who would have lived a thousand years without growing old.

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About the book

Around the World in Eighty Days is an adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1872. It follows Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Jean Passepartout as they attempt to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days to win a wager of £20,000 set by his friends at the Reform Club. The book blends travel narrative with scientific detail, reflecting the nineteenth-century transport revolution that made such a journey possible.

About the author

Jules Verne (1828–1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel produced the bestselling Voyages extraordinaires series, including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872).

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