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| Phileas Fogg | |
|---|---|
| Around the World in Eighty Days character | |
 Phileas Fogg, illustration by Alphonse de Neuville and/or Léon Benett (1873) | |
| Created by | Jules Verne |
| In-universe information | |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Gambler |
| Spouse | Aouda |
| Nationality | British |
Phileas Fogg (/ˈfɪliəs ˈfɒɡ/ FIL-ee-əs FOG) is the protagonist in the 1872 Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days. Inspirations for the character were the American entrepreneur George Francis Train and American writer and adventurer William Perry Fogg.[1][2]
- ^ Stephen Kern, The Culture of Time and Space, 1880–1918: With a New Preface, Harvard University Press (2003) via Google Books. p. 212
- ^ Joyce E. Chaplin, Round About the Earth: Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks (2012) via Google Books. p. 215