Thursday 28 February 2008

Les chats du Cimetiere Montmartre



For some reason, please enlighten me if you know which, the cemetery at Montmartre is filled with cats. Here is my photographic evidence.




You can see they are pure-bred and tabby, skinny and well-fed and seem to have no common factor. I wonder whether there is a preponderance of rats, whether they were attracted to the songs of birds, one of the few places in Paris where birds other than pigeons reside or something more mysterious.

On our way out we saw a woman come through the gates with a cat in a basket which raised all new questions. Was this some kind of unwanted cat repository? I would love to hear any suggestions.

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