My human is a history graduate student and I just loves some of the stories she brings home and reads aloud! She sez she reads aloud because it helps her to remember the stuff she is reading about. (Weird if you ask me, Pasha!)Anyway, one of her favourites is the short story The Great Cat Massacre by Robert Darnton. This story is really about French cultural history and comes from a book by the same name published in 1984 by Basic Books, Inc. (What duz Inc stand for?)
This story is social in the respect that it examines the life of the common masses . . .the apprentices of a Paris printing shop who in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats that they could lay their hands on.
Why did they find this so funny? You read the story and figure it out for yourself! This should interest all of the felines who have interest in sociology, history of pre-revolutionary France and social commentary in general.
[Note: Although the images in the above galleries represent masterworks of fine arts, some parents may find some subject matter inappropriate for young children.]
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