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Charlemagne and his men, believing that the city was full of food even to the point of wasting pigs fed with wheat, raised the siege.

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One of the earliest was the 6th century BCE Greek Bias of Priene who successfully sent off the Lydian king Alyattes by fattening up a pair of mules and driving them out of the besieged city.

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The legend that dates back to the twelfth century, was written in the sixteenth by Jean Dupre and rewritten in the seventeenth century by Guillaume Besse and Guillaume Catel.

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