R v Dudley and Stephens of them subsequently being cannibalised by their fellow seamen. Edgar Allan Poe's only novel, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket", published in 1838, features a character named Richard Parker, who, after a shipwreck, becomes a victim of cannibalism by the ship's remaining survivors. Writer Yann Martel in his 2001 novel "Life of Pi" picked up on these occurrences, and named the book's shipwrecked Bengal tiger Richard Parker. The case was also the basis for a famous Monty Python sketch, titled "Lifeboat (Cannibalism)/Still no Sign of Land". In that sketch, five sailors are on a lifeboat after a shipwreck,
Saint-Denis-lès-Martel Saint-Denis-lès-Martel Saint-Denis-lès-Martel is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France. The commune of Saint-Denis-lès-Martel is located in Quercy, in the "Causse de Martel". It is watered by two tributaries of the Dordogne, the Sourdoire which borders the communal territory to the southeast, and the Tourmente. Saint-Denis-lès-Martel is adjacent to five other communes. The toponym Saint-Denis-lès-Martel, in Occitan "Sent Daunís", is based on the Christian Hagiotoponyme, Denis de Paris (Dionysius): first Bishop of Paris. "Lès "comes from "Lez", a preposition from the late Latin "latus" meaning next to. Sent Daunís was called first Lenzac variant of Lanzac. During the