Jacques de Falaise (stage name of Jacques Simon; 1754 – 30 March 1825) was a French quarryman who became famous in the early 19th century for his ingestion skills. First hired by conjurer Louis Comte at his Paris theater in 1816, he became famous for a few years for his "polyphagic experiments", during which he ingested nuts, pipes, unshelled hard-boiled eggs, flowers with their stems, watches, and live animals such as mice, sparrows, eels, and crayfish.
Jacques de Falaise (stage name of Jacques Simon; 1754 – 30 March 1825) was a French quarryman who became famous in the early 19th century for his ingestion skills. First hired by conjurer Louis Comte at his Paris theater in 1816, he became famous for a few years for his "polyphagic experiments", during which he ingested nuts, pipes, unshelled hard-boiled eggs, flowers with their stems, watches, and live animals such as mice, sparrows, eels, and crayfish.
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