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In this work, Louise Robbins demonstrates that exotic animals from around the world were common in 18th-century Paris. She considers every aspect of France's obsession with exotic fauna, including how the animals were housed and cared far.
"In 1775 a visitor to Laurent Spinacuta's Grande Menagerie at the annual winter fair in Paris would have seen two tigers, several kinds of monkeys, an armadillo, an ocelot, and a condor - in all, forty-two live animals. In Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots, Louise E. Robbins …