Tarrare: Insatiable, Cannibalistic French Spy
He ate everything from trash, spoons, eels, snakes—and possibly even human toddlers.
By
Mary Kay McBrayer | Published Jun 13, 2022

- Photo Credit: Portrait de Jacques Simon dit Jacques de Falaise., 1820
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“Der Völler” by Georg Emanuel Opitz. 1804.
Photo Credit: Georg Emanuel Opitz / Wikimedia Commons
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Jacques de Falaise, often compared to Tarrare. 1820.
Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons