Passepartout
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The word Passepartout refers to several different things:
- Passepartout (in French, literally "passes everywhere" or "passes through everything") is a character in Jules Verne's novel, Around the World in Eighty Days and in the Sci Fi Channel (United States) television series The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne. He is the manservant of the book's hero, Phileas Fogg.
- Passepartout is the name of an important character in the French and later international television series Fort Boyard, played by the same midget actor since the beginning. He notably collects the keys that the contestants acquire along the game.
- Passepartout is an open source desktop publishing program for the X Window System. It is part of the GNOME project.