The Book, Cat, & Cat Book Lovers Almanac

of historical trivia regarding books, cats, and other animals. Actually this blog has evolved so that it is described better as a blog about cats in history and culture. And we take as a theme the advice of Aldous Huxley: If you want to be a writer, get some cats. Don't forget to see the archived articles linked at the bottom of the page.

June 8, 2019

June 8, 1903

Marguerite Yourcenar ( June 8, 1903 to December 17, 1987) a French writer, has been called a lover of cats. I don't know how accurate that is, but we have this picture of her with one. Her biography mentions her fantasy about revisiting events in her life, and a scene with "some cats I picked up...in an Anatolian village."

One biographer, Josyane Savigneau, (Marguerite Yourcenar: Inventing a Life ), quotes this interesting line of Yourcenar's: "Just when the gods had ceased to be, and the Christ had not yet come, there was a unique moment in history, between Cicero and Marcus Aurelius, when man stood alone.‎" Mémoires d'Hadrien (1951) is her best known book. The much honored writer became the first woman to be a member of the Academie Francaise in 1980.
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