Around the world in eighty days
Around the World in Eighty Days describes the extraordinary travels of Phileas Fogg and his valet Passepartout who, in order to win a wager with Fogg's fellow club members, attempt to circumnavigate the globe within 80 days. Pursued by Fix, a private detective who believes Fogg to be a bank robber, the pair cross three continents and two oceans on trains, steamers, an elephant, and anything else they can lay their hands on. Will Phileas and Passepartout make it back to London within the 80 days ? 
Le tour du mondeen quatre-vingt jours


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en quatre-vingt jours

Chapter 1
In Which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout Accept Each Other, the One as Master, the Other as Man

Chapter 2
In Which Passepartout Is Convinced That He Has at Last Found His Ideal

Chapter 3
In Which a Conversation Takes Place Which Seems Likely to Cost Phileas Fogg Dearly

Chapter 4
In Which Phileas Fogg Astounds Passepartout

Chapter 5
In Which a New Security Appears on the London Exchange

Chapter 6
In Which Fix, the Detective, Betrays a Very Natural Impatience

Chapter 7
Which Once More Demonstrates the Uselessness of Passports as Aids to Detectives

Chapter 8
In Which Passepartout Talks Rather More, Perhaps, than Is Prudent

Chapter 9
In Which the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean Prove Propitious to the Designs of Phileas Fogg

Chapter 10
In Which Passepartout Is Only Too Glad to Get off with the Loss of His Shoes

Chapter 11
In Which Phileas Fogg Buys a Curious Means of Conveyance at a Fabulous Price

Chapter 12
In Which Phileas Fogg and His Companions Venture across the Indian Forests, and What Follows

Chapter 13
In Which Passepartout Receives a New Proof That Fortune Favors the Brave

Chapter 14
In Which Phileas Fogg Descends the Whole Length of the Beautiful Valley of the Ganges without Ever Thinking of Seeing It

Chapter 15
In Which the Bag of Banknotes Disgorges Some Thousands of Pounds More

Chapter 16
In Which Fix Does Not Seem to Understand in the Least What is Said to Him

Chapter 17
Showing What Happened on the Voyage from Singapore to Hong Kong

Chapter 18
In Which Phileas Fogg, Passepartout and Fix Go Each about His Business

Chapter 19
In Which Passepartout Takes a Too Great Interest in His Master, and What Comes of It

Chapter 20
In Which Fix Comes Face to Face with Phileas Fogg

Chapter 21
In Which the Master of the Tankadere Runs Great Risk of Losing a Reward of Two Hundred Pounds

Chapter 22
In Which Passepartout Finds Out That, Even at the Antipodes, It Is Convenient to Have Some Money in One's Pocket

Chapter 23
In Which Passepartout's Nose Becomes Outrageously Long

Chapter 24
During Which Mr. Fogg and Party Cross the Pacific Ocean

Chapter 25
In Which a Slight Glimpse Is Had of San Francisco

Chapter 26
In Which Phileas Fogg and Party Travel by the Pacific Railroad

Chapter 27
In Which Passepartout Undergoes, at a Speed of Twenty Miles an Hour, a Course of Mormon History

Chapter 28
In Which Passepartout Does Not Succeed in Making Anybody Listen to Reason

Chapter 29
In Which Certain Incidents Are Narrated Which Are Only to Be Met with on American Railroads

Chapter 30
In Which Phileas Fogg Simply Does His Duty

Chapter 31
Fix the Detective Considerably Furthers the Interests of Phileas Fogg

Chapter 32
In Which Phileas Fogg Engages in a Direct Struggle with Bad Fortune

Chapter 33
In Which Phileas Fogg Shows Himself Equal to the Occasion

Chapter 34
In Which Phileas Fogg at Last Reaches London

Chapter 35
In Which Phileas Fogg Does Not Have to Repeat His Orders to Passepartout Twice

Chapter 36
In Which Phileas Fogg's Name Is Once More at a Premium on the Market

Chapter 37
In Which It Is Shown That Phileas Fogg Gained Nothing by His Tour around the World Except Happiness

 
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