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Passepartout is French for Pass-Key may refer to:
- passepartout (fare network), a coherent and integrated public transport network system of the cantons of Lucerne, Obwalden, and Nidwalden in Central Switzerland.
- Jean Passepartout is a character in Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days novel. Phileas Fogg's new servant
- Passepartout, the lead character in Rocket! Take Us to the Moon. New From the Earth to the Moon animated series. Subtly Implied to be the son of Phileas Fogg's servant in the Around the World in Eighty Days novel
- Passepartout, the name of the restaurant run by singer June Tabor
- Passe-Partout, a French-language children's television program produced from 1977 to 1987 by Radio-Québec (now Télé-Québec)
- Passe-Partout (framing)
- Passe Partout, the name of a local morning news program on KLFY-TV in Lafayette, Louisiana
Usage examples of "passepartout".
At half-past eleven, then, Passepartout found himself alone in the house in Saville Row.
When Passepartout reached the second story he recognised at once the room which he was to inhabit, and he was well satisfied with it.
After all, Passepartout, who had been away from France five years, would not be sorry to set foot on his native soil again.
Just as the train was whirling through Sydenham, Passepartout suddenly uttered a cry of despair.
Fogg, after leaving the consulate, repaired to the quay, gave some orders to Passepartout, went off to the Mongolia in a boat, and descended to his cabin.
Chapter VIII IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT TALKS RATHER MORE, PERHAPS, THAN IS PRUDENT Fix soon rejoined PASSEPARTOUT, who was lounging and looking about on the quay, as if he did not feel that he, at least, was obliged not to see anything.
And they walked off together, Passepartout chatting volubly as they went along.
He continued to pump poor Passepartout, and learned that he really knew little or nothing of his master, who lived a solitary existence in London, was said to be rich, though no one knew whence came his riches, and was mysterious and impenetrable in his affairs and habits.
As for Passepartout, he, too, had escaped sea-sickness, and took his meals conscientiously in the forward cabin.
He frequently offered him a glass of whiskey or pale ale in the steamer bar-room, which Passepartout never failed to accept with graceful alacrity, mentally pronouncing Fix the best of good fellows.
The trip was being accomplished most successfully, and Passepartout was enchanted with the congenial companion which chance had secured him in the person of the delightful Fix.
He did not doubt for a moment, any more than Passepartout, that Phileas Fogg would remain there, at least until it was time for the warrant to arrive.
It is needless to say that Passepartout watched these curious ceremonies with staring eyes and gaping mouth, and that his countenance was that of the greenest booby imaginable.
At five minutes before eight, Passepartout, hatless, shoeless, and having in the squabble lost his package of shirts and shoes, rushed breathlessly into the station.
Poor Passepartout, quite crestfallen, followed his master without a word.