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The Magna Carta Is a Messy Bitch
Maximiliani Portis was disgusted by the abuse of cats by peasants on the French countryside. Her only real biographer, Nicholas Goodrich Clark, claims this disgusted her and turned her against mankind. Today we rightly revere cats as our moral and intellectual superiors but they have not always been beloved in the West. There's a long Christian tradition of seeing cats as demonic entities.