Charles Perrault, a French writer, was born on January 12, in 1628. Perrault popularized the story of Puss-N-Boots. In 17th century France, a land in which the memories of the Renaissance witchcraft trials (and their attendant cruelty to cats) were still vivid to some, in this land and since,the popularity of this story--of a cat wearing boots and cleverly acquiring a fortune for its owner--needs an explanation. I don't have one: what is the appeal of this story, is it a coded account of Protestant triumph, or an account of capitalist values. Not sure, yet.
May 27, 1564 John Calvin, a Protestant theologian who argued for predestination, was fond of his wife's cat,"Henriette." His wife and his wife's cat died in the same month, and according to J. Stephen Lang, author of 1,001 Things You Always Wanted to Know about Cats, Calvin did not get another wife or another cat. John Calvin died on May 27, 1564.
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