Jeanne d’Arc: for the sake of the Cat
Do you know that We, Zarathustra the Cat, made a crucial impact on the Maid of Orléan’s heroic deeds?
Look at the illustration created in 1506 by the artist Jean Pichore for the manuscript book “Lives of famous women” (“Les Vies des femmes célèbres”) by Antoine Du Four, a writer from Orléans, the place of Jeanne d’Arc’s fame:
Jeanne d’Arc on Catback. Au nom-nom de chat
Please look attentively what is written on the banner in Jeanne d’Arc’s hand: “Au nom-nom de Chat” (no, it isn’t “au nom de Dieu” like some ignoramuses may think)
It means that the search for proper cat food (shrimps, you know) was one of the noble tasks fulfilled by the Maid of Orléans
Have a look at the commonly known version of the illustration:
Jeanne d’Arc on horseback in the book Les Vies des femmes célèbres
No trace of historic truth!
Historians should finally understand that Jeanne d’Arc would not win at Orleans if her cat was not well-fed!
Thus speaks Zarathustra the Cat
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