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La Maison du chat-qui-pelote (The House of the Cat and Racket) is a novel by Honoré de Balzac. It is the opening work in the Scènes de la vie privée ( transl. Scenes of Private Life ), which comprises the first volume of Balzac's La Comédie humaine .
La chatte métamorphosée en femme was first performed in Paris, at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens, on 19 April 1858, and was kept in the repertory by the Bouffes-Parisiens for some time. It was revived at the 1986 Carpentras Festival, [ 2 ] and more recently at the Théâtre de Cornouaille, Quimper and the Opéra de Rennes, in 2008.
The Berceuses du chat were composed in 1915/16 while Stravinsky was living in Clarens, Switzerland, during World War I. [2] They are based on Russian folk songs found in the collection of Russian folklorist Pyotr Kireevsky. Stravinsky had purchased the volume in Kiev during his last trip to Kiev in July 1914, just before the outbreak of the war.
The original name was the Rue des Étuves (transl. Street of the Ovens – transl. Street of the Baths) or Ruelle des Étuves, and at various times it has also been known as the Rue du Renard (not to be confused with the current Rue du Renard, in the 4th arrondissement) and the Rue des Bouticles (transl. Street of the Shops).
Le Chat is an adult, human-sized obese, anthropomorphic cat who typically wears a suit. He always has the same physical expression. He often comes up with elaborate reasonings which lead to hilariously absurd conclusions e.g. by taking metaphors literally or by adding increasingly unlikely what-ifs to ordinary situations.
Les Chats Sauvages (The Wild Cats) was a French rock and roll band, that was formed in 1961. Together with Les Chaussettes Noires , they were among the first outfits to perform rock and roll music in France.
The red-breasted chat is 14.5 to 16 cm (5.7 to 6.3 in) long; 12 specimens weighed between 10.2 and 11.4 g (0.36 and 0.40 oz). The adult nominate male's upperside is mostly bluish gray. Most of the face is black, though it has a broad white supercilium, and there is a black band across the chest. The chin, throat, sides, and flanks are white ...
Cri du chat syndrome is a rare genetic disorder due to a partial chromosome deletion on chromosome 5. [1] Its name is a French term ("cat-cry" or "call of the cat") referring to the characteristic cat-like cry of affected children. [2] It was first described by Jérôme Lejeune in 1963. [3]