When I, see wearing glasses
To people who would be fine without it,
I say to myself: I will have to buy some...
To make my dog wear it.
(To a familiar tune)

This quatrain, which is not of the first youth - an innocent satire addressed to the first "monoclé" snobs - does not succeed in bringing the fashion for spectacles among "our four-legged friends".

Will Zizi be more successful. Zizi is a superb half-Angora tomcat, with a tawny coat speckled with white, with conquering mustaches, whom you can see enthroned, when the weather is fine, on a stool covered with a soft cover, in front of his master's shop, Boulevard Saint Germain.

Zizi is a superb cat. But you would search in vain, below the quivering cones of his ears, for the large golden eyes, with the enigmatic look of a nocturnal bird. Zizi's eyes disappear behind imposing glasses with tinted lenses, which a silk cord tied behind the neck fixes delicately.

The master of the house is an optician. Did he put glasses on his cat to serve as a sign for his establishment ? No ! He claims : Zizi had poor eyesight and a strong predisposition to "convergent strabismus," which, in layman's terms, means he was cross-eyed.

Now, don't believe that Zizi draws the slightest arrogance from this device, reserved until now only for humans.