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503:. A strip search found nothing suspicious on his person, and despite being whipped by Prussian soldiers, he refused to betray his mission. Brought before the local Prussian commander, General Zoegli, he again refused to talk and was imprisoned. After 24 hours of captivity, Tarrare relented and explained the scheme to his captors. He was chained to a latrine, and eventually, 30 hours after being swallowed, the wooden box emerged. Zoegli was furious when the documents, which Tarrare had said contained vital intelligence, transpired only to be de Beauharnais's dummy-message, and Tarrare was taken to a 466:
fell asleep; Courville noted that Tarrare's belly became taut and inflated like a large balloon. On another occasion, Tarrare was presented with a live cat. He tore the cat's abdomen open with his teeth and drank its blood, and proceeded to eat the entire cat aside from its bones, before vomiting up its fur and skin. Following this, hospital-staff offered Tarrare a variety of other animals including snakes, lizards and puppies, all of which were eaten; he also swallowed an entire eel without chewing, having first crushed its head with his teeth.
368:). He was described as having unusually soft fair hair and an abnormally wide mouth (roughly four inches between his jaws when his mouth was fully extended), in which his teeth were heavily stained and on which the lips were almost invisible. When he had not eaten, his skin hung so loosely that he could wrap the fold of skin from his abdomen around his waist. When full, his abdomen distended "like a huge balloon". The skin of his cheeks were wrinkled and hung loosely, and when stretched out, he could hold twelve eggs or apples in his mouth. 51: 124: 383:, which was said to be "fetid beyond all conception". Despite his large intake of food, he did not appear either to vomit excessively or to gain weight. Aside from his eating habits, his contemporaries saw no apparent signs of mental illness or unusual behaviour in him, other than an apathetic temperament with "a complete lack of force and ideas". 325:, weighing as much as Tarrare himself, in a single day. By this time, his parents could not provide for him and had forced him to leave home. For some years after this, he toured the country with a roaming band of thieves and prostitutes, stealing and begging for food, before gaining employment as a warm-up act to a travelling 495:; he was told that the documents were of great military significance, but in reality, de Beauharnais had merely written a note asking the colonel to confirm that the message had been received successfully, and if so, to return a reply of any potentially useful information about Prussian troop movements. 490:
Following this successful demonstration, Tarrare became employed officially as a spy of the Army of the Rhine. Although General de Beauharnais was convinced of Tarrare's physical capacity to carry messages internally, he was concerned about his mental state and initially reluctant to entrust him
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near the hospital's gates; although generally hospital-staff restrained Tarrare in the presence of food, on this occasion, Courville allowed him to reach the table undisturbed. Tarrare ate the entire meal of two large meat-pies, plates of grease and salt and four gallons of milk, and then immediately
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hospital contacted Percy to notify him that a patient of theirs wished to see him. It was Tarrare, now bedridden and weak. Tarrare told Percy that he had swallowed a golden fork two years earlier, which he believed was now lodged inside him and causing his current weakness. He hoped that Percy could
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and the noose placed around his neck. (Some sources state that General Zoegli never retrieved the box, as Tarrare had the presence of mind to recover and eat the stool containing it before it could be seized by the Prussians.) At the last minute, Zoegli relented, and Tarrare was taken down from the
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with a suggestion that Tarrare's unusual abilities and behaviour could be put to military use. A document was placed inside a wooden box which was in turn fed to Tarrare. Two days later, the box was retrieved from his excrement, with the document still in legible condition. Courville proposed to
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and became the subject of a series of medical experiments to test his eating capacity, in which, among other things, he ate a meal intended for 15 people in a single sitting, ate live cats, snakes, lizards, and puppies, and swallowed eels whole without chewing. Despite his unusual diet, he was
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The corpse rotted quickly; the surgeons of the hospital refused to dissect it. Tessier, however, wanted to find out how Tarrare's intestines differed from those of a normal person; he was also curious as to whether the gold fork was lodged inside him. At the autopsy, Tarrare's
418:. However, military rations were insufficient to satisfy his appetite. He carried out tasks for other soldiers in return for a share of their rations and scavenge on the dungheap for scraps, but this was not enough to satisfy him. He was admitted to the military hospital at 556:
After some time, a 14-month-old child disappeared from the hospital, and Tarrare was immediately suspected of having consumed the toddler. Percy was unable or unwilling to defend him, and the hospital staff chased Tarrare from the hospital, to which he never returned.
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After several months that he spent as an experimental case, military authorities began to press for Tarrare to be returned to active duty. Dr. Courville was keen to continue his investigations into Tarrare's eating habits and digestive system, and approached
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Tarrare crossed Prussian lines under cover of darkness, disguised as a German peasant. Unable to speak German, he soon attracted the attention of local residents, who alerted the Prussian authorities, and he was captured outside
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and eating habits. Able to eat vast amounts of meat, he was constantly hungry; his parents could not provide for him and he was turned out of the family home as a teenager. He travelled to France in the company of a band of
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Chastened by this experience, he agreed to submit to any procedure that might cure his appetite. The procedures failed, and doctors could not keep him on a controlled diet; he snuck out of the hospital to scavenge for
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Following this incident, Tarrare was desperate to avoid further military service, and returned to the hospital, telling Percy that he would attempt any possible cure for his appetite. Percy treated him with
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for the French army, with the intention that he would swallow documents, pass through enemy lines, and recover them from his stool once safely at his destination. On his first mission, he was captured by
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outside butchers' shops and to fight stray dogs for carrion in gutters, alleys and rubbish heaps. He was also caught several times within the hospital drinking from patients undergoing
329:. Tarrare drew a crowd by eating corks, stones, and live animals, and by swallowing an entire basketful of apples one after the other. He ate ravenously and was particularly fond of 480:
de Beauharnais that Tarrare could thus serve as a military courier, carrying documents securely through enemy territory with no risk of them being found if he were searched.
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The cause of Tarrare's behaviour is not known. While there are other documented cases of similar behaviour from the period, none of the subjects other than Tarrare were
533:, but this also failed to suppress his appetite. Efforts to keep him on any kind of controlled diet failed; he would sneak out of the hospital to scavenge for 586:
was found to be abnormally wide, and when his jaws were opened surgeons could see down a broad canal into the stomach. His body was found to be filled with
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can induce an extreme appetite, rapid weight loss, profuse sweating, heat intolerance, and fine hair. Bondeson (2006) speculates that Tarrare had a damaged
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with significant military documents. Tarrare was ordered as his first assignment to carry a message to a French colonel imprisoned by the Prussians near
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underweight and, except for his eating habits, he showed no signs of mental illness other than what was described as an apathetic temperament.
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to work as a street performer. He appears to have been successful in general, but on one occasion, the act went wrong and he suffered severe
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As Tarrare's real name is unknown, it is impossible to determine his date of birth; doctors estimated his age as 26 at his death in 1798.
1335: 1268: 1242: 626: 434:. Military surgeons could not understand his appetite; Tarrare was ordered to remain in the military hospital to take part in 492: 1389: 451:"The dogs and cats fled in terror at his aspect, as if they had anticipated the kind of fate he was preparing for them" 439: 1355: 484: 411: 226: 165: 1345: 314:, around 1772. His date of birth is unrecorded and it is not even known if Tarrare was his real name or nickname. 1384: 415: 230: 139: 1354:. Doctor Percy's original paper on Tarrare's medical history. (The date of this paper was Brumaire XIII of the 1260: 476: 246: 483:
Tarrare was called on by Beauharnais to demonstrate his abilities before a gathering of the commanders of the
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in gutters and refuse containers, ate the scraps of food left by other patients, and crept into the
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Despite his unusual diet, Tarrare was slim and of average height. At the age of 17, he weighed only
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Courville and Percy decided to test Tarrare's capacity for food. A meal had been prepared for 15
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with a case of extreme exhaustion. He was granted quadruple rations but remained hungry; he
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His body was hot to the touch and he sweated heavily; he constantly had a foul body-
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find some way to remove it. Percy, however, recognised that he had advanced
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Freaks: The Pig-Faced Lady of Manchester Square & Other Medical Marvels
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decided to put Tarrare's abilities to military use, and employed him as a
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scaffold, given a severe beating, and released near the French lines.
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T. Bradley, Samuel Fothergill & William Hutchinson, ed. (1819),
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T. Bradley, Samuel Fothergill & William Hutchinson, ed. (1819),
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and there have been no modern documented cases resembling Tarrare.
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T. Bradley, Samuel Fothergill and William Hutchinson, ed. (1819),
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and filling most of his abdominal cavity. No fork was ever found.
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were abnormally large, and his stomach was enormous, covered in
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attempted to drink the blood of other patients in the hospital
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and thieves before becoming the warm-up act for a travelling
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experiments designed by Dr. Courville (surgeon to the
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in gutters, rubbish heaps and outside butchers' shops, and
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French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars
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and died shortly afterward, following a lengthy bout of
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Spies of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
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that recounts Tarrare's life in fictionalized form.
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Members of the crowd carried him to the 321:and by his teens could eat a quarter of a 49: 38: 1350:Journal de mĂ©decine, chirurgie, pharmacie 1292:Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1215: 979: 877: 521:without success; further treatments with 1203: 1191: 1179: 1146: 1053: 1041: 1006: 916: 856: 844: 771: 23:. For the opera by Antonio Salieri, see 1302:(2 ed.), London: Richard Bentley, 689: 660: 262:before being returned to French lines. 759:Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 477:General Alexandre de Beauharnais 177: 7: 1113: 991: 805: 786: 446:, surgeon-in-chief of the hospital. 19:For the 19th-century racehorse, see 1097:London Medical and Physical Journal 954:London Medical and Physical Journal 722:London Medical and Physical Journal 14: 1300:Curiosities of Medical Experience 627:List of incidents of cannibalism 122: 1019:Bondeson, Jan (October 2001), 1: 1352:(in French) (9), Paris: 90–99 1237:, Stroud: Tempus Publishing, 470:Service as a military courier 183: 80: 578:, dying shortly afterwards. 203:. In this act, he swallowed 1410:People from Lyon Metropolis 1346:"MĂ©moire sur la polyphagie" 1436: 1356:French Republican Calendar 1286:Lord, Perceval B. 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Index

Tarrare (horse)
Tarare (opera)
Tarare

Pierre-François Percy
Lyon
Versailles
French First Republic
French Revolutionary Army
War of the First Coalition
[taʁaʁ]
unusual appetite
prostitutes
charlatan
corks
stones
live animals
Paris
street performer.
War of the First Coalition
French Revolutionary Army
hospitalised
exhaustion
Alexandre de Beauharnais
courier
Prussian
mock execution
offal
attempted to drink the blood of other patients in the hospital
bloodletting

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