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Prints of entertainers published in <i>Le Bon Genre</i> were images of performers who would have been well known in Paris at the time and who could be seen for an entrance fee in exhibition halls and theatres. This performer made his name by eating all sorts of things including live sparrows, watches, and roses complete with leaves and thorns. He is recorded as performing at one stage in a basement under the Hôtel des Fermes, Rue de Grenelle Saint-Honoré, where the ventriloquist and magician Louis Christian Emmanuel Comte established an exhibition space in 1814. After the Indian jugglers and sword-swallowers came to Paris. Jacques de Falaise also swallowed a sword, such as the one held by his assistant in this print. His soubriquet 'Le Polyphage' meant that he was 'polyphagous, a word that is used to refer to an animal that can eat various types of food.\n","physicalDescription":"Hand-coloured etching showing a grey-haired man standing on a rostrum about to eat a live mouse, holding a small snake in his left hand. His assistant is holding a rapier in his left hand whilst showing some roses to three fashionably-dressed ladies who are watching the performance, two seated on a bench, one with her shawl draped across her lap, another holding her bonnet, and the third standing, her reticule suspended from her right arm. 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