# The Story of a Cat

Author: La Bédollière, Emile de, 1812-1883; Hopkins, Livingston, 1846-1927 [Illustrator]; Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 [Translator]

Genre: Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27472

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Story+of+a+Cat+La+B%C3%A9dolli%C3%A8re&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

There lived in Paris, under the reign of King Louis XV., a very rich old countess named Yolande de la Grenouillere. She was a worthy and charitable lady, who distributed alms not only to the poor of her own parish, Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, but to the unfortunate of other quarters. Her husband, Roch-Eustache-Jeremie, Count of Grenouillere, had fallen gloriously at the battle of Fontenoy, on the 11th of May, 1745. The noble widow had long mourned for him, and even now at times wept over his death. Left without children, and almost entirely alone in the world, she gave herself up to a strange fancy,--a fancy, it is true, which in no manner detracted from her real virtues and admirable qual...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-story-of-a-cat-27472/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-story-of-a-cat-27472/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-story-of-a-cat-27472/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-story-of-a-cat-27472/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-story-of-a-cat-27472/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-story-of-a-cat-27472/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-story-of-a-cat-27472/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-story-of-a-cat-27472/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-story-of-a-cat-27472/chapters/7/index.md)