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Aug 16, 2024 · Around the World in Eighty Days is not based on a true story, it is actually completely fictional. Where did Jules Verne get his story from?
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Fogg and his companions show up in Paris not long after the Commune is violently suppressed. Image: Masterpiece Fogg and his companions find Paris wracked by popular unrestwhen they arrive there—not an uncommon circumstance in the century after the First French Revolution of 1789. The grandly named Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers was a major figu...
While a hot air balloon isn't part of Jules Verne's 'Around the World in 80 Days,' it appears in another of his books. Image: Masterpiece While hot air balloons like the one Fogg and his companions use to flee Paris in the first episode were indeed around by 1872—the first manned flight was a century earlier, in 1783—it’s notable that one doesn’t a...
Although the characters eat them on separate continents, bagna cauda and gentleman's relish are surprisingly similar. Image: Masterpiece We include these fish-based condiments not for their historical significance but because the show pays a surprising amount of attention to both of these similar delicacies. On the train through Italy in episode 2,...
Fogg likens a crumbling Italian bridge to a viaduct in Scotland. Image: Masterpiece As Fogg and company traverse Italy via train in the second episode, they suddenly jerk to a stop before a crumbling bridge. Fogg calculates that a reduced train could make it across the unsupported stretch of rail where the bridge has disintegrated, citing a railroa...
A young boy in the show is obsessed with Jules Verne's 'From the Earth to the Moon' In the second episode, Fogg meets a boy, Alberto, who is fascinated by Jules Verne’s novels about traveling to the moon, 1865’s From the Earth to the Moon and 1869’s Around the Moon. Verne is, of course, also the author of a little book called Around the World in Ei...
The Suez Canal, which opened in 1869, is an integral—although little-mentioned in the show—part of the modern infrastructure that allows Fogg to potentially circumnavigate the globe in 80 days. Connecting the Mediterranean and Red Seas, the 120-mile canal allowed ships to reach the Indian Ocean without sailing all the way around Africa. Fogg’s part...
Fogg sets a puddle of petroleum in the desert alight. Image: Masterpiece While crossing the desert in episode 3, Fogg notices petroleum welling up from the ground and later lights a puddle of the oil on fire to fend off attackers. Oil wells and refineries began opening in the 1850s, while kerosene was taking off in the same decade as a lamp oil. “T...
Arjan is a sepoy, or Indian soldier in the British Indian Army. Photo: Joe Alblas - © Slim 80 Days / Federation Entertainment / Peu Communications / ZDF / Be-Films / RTBF In episode 4, Fogg and his party meet an Indian soldier in the British Indian Army, Arjan, who is referred to as “sepoy.” The word refers to an Indian infantryman (and is still us...
In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager of £20,000 (equivalent to £2.3 million in 2023) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works.
Dec 26, 2021 · BBC's Around the World in 80 Days is based on Jules Verne's acclaimed 1872 serial (and subsequent 1873 novel) of the same name. While the original novel is a work of fiction, its protagonist...
Nellie Bly was a 19th-century American journalist who was told it would be impossible for her to make it around the world in 80 days like the fictional Phileas Fogg – then did it all the same.
As Around the World in 80 Days passes a major milestone, Thomas Bywater looks at the Phileas Fogg Club and the real life adventures inspired by the story. The first to attempt the wager were...
Aug 14, 2024 · Around the World in Eighty Days, travel adventure novel by French author Jules Verne, published serially in 1872 in Le Temps and in book form in 1873. The work tells the story of the unflappable Phileas Fogg ’s trip around the world, accompanied by his emotional valet, Passepartout, to win a bet.
