Jean, if monsieur pleases," replied the newcomer, "Jean Passepartout. My family name suits me because I often go from one business into another. I've had several trades. I've been a singer, a circus-rider, a professor of gymnastics, and a fireman in Paris. I left France five years ago to come to England, and I heard Monsieur Phineas Fogg was the most exact gentleman in the United Kingdom. I have come to monsieur in the hope of living a calm life, and even to forget the name Passepartout.