The Tory Party » tarrare http://www.toryhoke.com Comics, essays, art, and heckling Sat, 30 Apr 2016 02:06:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3.3 gulosity http://www.toryhoke.com/rarewords/gulosity/ http://www.toryhoke.com/rarewords/gulosity/#comments Thu, 08 Aug 2013 13:00:55 +0000 https://www.toryhoke.com/?post_type=webcomic10&p=6346 n. enormous appetite; gluttony If I forget the name of Tarrare, the 18th C Frenchman of monstrous gulosity, I can find him by Googling “Frenchman who ate everything.”
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]]> http://www.toryhoke.com/rarewords/gulosity/feed/ 0 Tarrare Sketches http://www.toryhoke.com/2013/02/28/tarrare-sketches/ http://www.toryhoke.com/2013/02/28/tarrare-sketches/#comments Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:00:50 +0000 https://www.toryhoke.com/?p=4764 I have mentioned I am obsessed with the story of Tarrare, yes? The 18th Century Frenchman/street performer/would-be spy for the French Revolutionary Army? With military rations unable to satisfy his large appetite, he would eat any available food from gutters and refuse heaps but his condition still deteriorated through hunger. Suffering from exhaustion, he was […]
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