From the August 16, 1921 New York Times:

“Paris–When a landlord at Lille called for his rent his tenant, Jean Batiste Caillaux, bit off his nose. For doing so Caillaux was yesterday sent to prison for three months and fined 100 francs.

According to the landlord’s story, he had had trouble for some time past about collecting the rent from his tenant, and the agent having failed, he went himself to do it. From words the two passed to blows and from blows to a wrestling match, in the course of which Caillaux got his teeth well into the other’s nose and bit off a considerable piece. That stopped the fight.

Caillaux was considerably embarrassed by his mouthful and spat it out on the ground, whereupon the owner of the nose made a grab for it. Carrying it in his hands, he ran to a doctor and got it successfully sewed on again.”