Phileas Fogg 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.
Phileas Fogg, illustration by Alphonse de Neuville and/or Léon Benett (1873)
Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. 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 set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works.
Cover of the 1873 first edition
The book page containing the famous dénouement (page 312 in the Philadelphia – Porter & Coates, 1873 edition)