Jonas Dupont
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Jonas Dupont was a Frenchman who became famous for the publishing of the book De Incendiis Corporis Humani Spontaneis
. Dupont became interested in spontaneous human combustion
(SHC) after coming across the Nicole Millet case. This case occurred in 1725, where Nicole Millet's husband was accused of burning her to death, but was acquitted after a surgeon named Nicholas le Cat convinced the court that her cause of death had been SHC.
Dupont was one of the first people to publish a reliable collection of evidence on SHC. His book made SHC a thing of popular interest and sparked people's imaginations around the world, including that of Charles Dickens
, who used SHC in "Bleak House", one of his books, to kill off a character.
De Incendiis Corporis Humani Spontaneis
De Incendiis Corporis Humani Spontaneis is book published by a French author Jonas Dupont. It contains a collection of cases and studies on spontaneous human combustion...
. Dupont became interested in spontaneous human combustion
Spontaneous human combustion
Spontaneous human combustion describes reported cases of the burning of a living human body without an apparent external source of ignition...
(SHC) after coming across the Nicole Millet case. This case occurred in 1725, where Nicole Millet's husband was accused of burning her to death, but was acquitted after a surgeon named Nicholas le Cat convinced the court that her cause of death had been SHC.
Dupont was one of the first people to publish a reliable collection of evidence on SHC. His book made SHC a thing of popular interest and sparked people's imaginations around the world, including that of Charles Dickens
Charles Dickinson (writer)
Charles Dickinson is an American writer known for his literary novels which often mix realism with winsome absurdity. His books include, in the order of their publication: Waltz in Marathon, Crows, With or Without , The Widows' Adventures, Rumor Has It, and A Shortcut in Time.His short fiction and...
, who used SHC in "Bleak House", one of his books, to kill off a character.