Jean-Augustin-Alexis Sauvage

All the Paris newspapers have recently paid, for compensation for oblivion and the misfortunes of his life, a fair tribute of praise to the memory of Frederic Sauvage, inventor of the propeller. Today we have to add to the martyrology of inventors the name of Jean-Augustin-Alexis Sauvage, another engineer-inventor-mechanic, who just died in Passy. Would it then be true, as it has been said, that every man of genius...