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From Moncrif, too, we learn of Tata, the cat of Mme. la Marquise de Montglas; and of Dom Gris, the cat of Mme. la Duchesse de Béthune; and of the incomparable Ménine, "morte vierge au printemps de la vie," whom the young Duchesse de Lesdiguières cherished and lost.

When this fair Amazon died, Mme. de Lesdiguières built over the little corpse a noble mausoleum, with a marble pussy sleeping upon a marble pillow, whereon was engraved the following courtly epitaph: