Phileas Fogg “Jean Basteaux” [01:00]# The voice introduces “the men of the desert legion.” They pass on the chow line getting servings of cement and rocks. Flashback to the happier days of one of these pitiful cases – Jean Basteaux. Once “the fines garlic crouton chef in all of France.” Fame, adulation, beautiful women, he had it all. Until that fateful press conference, when a journalist produced Phileas Fogg Mignons Morceaux – garlic croutons every bit as tasty as Jean’s. Finish back in the barrack where Jean is swatting flies from under his corrugated iron bed sheet – “just another crouton floating on the bouillabaisse of life.”