Ah yes, Cardinal Richelieu and his cats. The Red Eminence had 14 cats, here are their names: Racan (poet and academician), Gazette (indiscrete), Rubis sur l'Ongle (scratchy), Pyrame & Thysbe (lovers who slept with paws entwined), Serpolet (loved sunning himself), Felimare (tiger-striped), Soumise (submissive, Richelieu's favourite), Lucifer (jet black), Ludovic le Cruel (rat-killer), Ludoviska (rat-catcher's Polish mistress), Mimi-Paillon ('straw' angora), Mounard le Fougueux ('ardent', quarellsome, capricious, worldy), Perruque (fell from Racan's wig), and Gavroche (angora).