"Scenes of the Private and Public Life of Animals" (1842) is a famous collection for which the texts were written by famous French writers, and the illustrations were made by the wonderful draftsman Granville. The cross-cutting plot of the book is the story of how the animals gathered for their General Assembly and decided to free themselves from human power, and for this - to tell each their own story. The reader is waiting for the monologues of the Conformist Hare and the Byronist Bear, the Epicurean Crocodile and the Poodle, who became a theater critic, the English Cat, convicted of adultery, and the French Cat, deceived by the traitor Cat.