• Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured by savages, of whom not a single fragment was ever recovered.

    Ambrose Bierce: Monsieur Franqulin, inventor of electricity. This
 illustrious savant, after having made several voyages around the
 world, died on the Sandwich Islands and was devoured by savages,
 of whom not a single fragment was ever recovered.
    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.64, University of Georgia Press