The White Cat

Published: July 8, 2020, 9 p.m.

b"We hope you enjoy this preview of an episode from our back catalog available to our premium subscribers. Tonight, we\\u2019ll read a fairy tale called The White Cat, credited to Madame Comtesse d\\u2019Aulnoy. Madame d\\u2019Aulnoy\\u2019s tales were designed to entertain literary salon attendees for hours so they tended to be long, complicated and political. She could not openly criticize the regime of Louis the Fourteenth, or the way aristocratic women were entrapped within it, but she could tell her fairy tales, as in this one.\\xa0To unlock full episodes, ad-free listening, and more, please go to\\xa0snoozecast.com/plus.\\n\\n\\u2014 read by 'V' \\u2014\\xa0\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"