The Great Cat Massacre
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The Great Cat Massacre took place in the late 1730s. Apprentice printers living and working on Rue Saint-Séverin in Paris suffered hard conditions and so resented the favours which their masters gave to their cats. They contrived to be ordered to deal with nuisance cats and then slaughtered sackloads of them so as to distress their masters. This was an early form of workers' protest. [1][2]
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- ^ Robert Darnton (1985). The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History. ISBN 0394729277.
- ^ Mark Levene, Penny Roberts (1999). The Massacre in History. Berghahn Books. ISBN 1571819347.
