Ribald Classic: The Black Cat

March, 1978

Here is a Story that is causing much amusement among our courtiers at Versailles.A rich merchant of Paris married a voluptuous young girl who soon made him the unhappiest man in the city. The merchant became obsessed by the fear that while he was away trading goods for gold to fill his coffers, his wife was opening her own coffer for treasures deposited within it by the hot-blooded gallants who flocked around her.Constantly pricked by suspicion, the husband could not sleep. At night, he tossed i...