Transcriber’s Note
This ebook is an extract from The Works of Théophile Gautier, Volume Nineteen,translated and edited by F. C. de Sumichrast. Only the references to thiswork have been retained on the title page and in the table of contents.
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. A list of correctionsis found at the end of the text.
THE WORKS OF
THÉOPHILE GAUTIER
VOLUME NINETEEN
TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY
PROFESSOR F. C. de SUMICHRAST
Department of French, Harvard University
THE ATHENAEUM SOCIETY
NEW YORK
Copyright, 1902, by
George D. Sproul
UNIVERSITY PRESS · JOHN WILSON
AND SON · CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.
MY PRIVATE MENAGERIE
| I | Antiquity | Page | 283 |
| II | The White Dynasty | “ | 294 |
| III | The Black Dynasty | “ | 305 |
| IV | This Side for Dogs | “ | 318 |
| V | My Horses | “ | 336 |
My Private Menagerie
MY PRIVATE MENAGERIE
I have often been caricatured in Turkish dress seated upon cushions, andsurrounded by cats so familiar that they did not hesitate to climb uponmy shoulders and even upon my head. The caricature is truth slightlyexaggerated, and I must own that all my life I have been as fond ofanimals in general and of cats in particular as any brahmin or old maid.The great Byron always trotted a menagerie round with him, even whentravelling, and he caused to be erected, in the park of Newstead Abbey,a monument to his faithful Newfoundland dog Boatswain, with aninscription in verse of his own inditing. I cannot be accused ofimitation in the matter of our common liking for dogs, for that love...