Animals-Domestic

My Private Menagerie from The Works of Theophile Gautier Volume 19

Gautier, Théophile, 1811-1872; Sumichrast, Frederick C. de (Frederick Caesar de), 1845-1933 [Editor]; Sumichrast, Frederick C. de (Frederick Caesar de), 1845-1933 [Translator]· 2 chapters· 13,321 words

I have often been caricatured in Turkish dress seated upon cushions, and surrounded by cats so familiar that they did not hesitate to climb upon my shoulders and even upon my head. The caricature is truth slightly exaggerated, and I must own that all my life I have been as fon...