The story is about a young man who falls in love with a cat, which assumes a human form through the intervention of Aphrodite.
The story has also been adapted for the stage and performed in Paris, where incidental music for it was written by Henri Sauguet in 1933.
Henri Matisse | Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne | Bernard-Henri Lévy | Henri Dutilleux | Paul-Henri Mathieu | Henri Poincaré | Robert Henri | Henri Mignet | Henri Cartier-Bresson | Henri Fayol | Henri Bendel | Henri Barbusse | Jean-Henri Fabre | Henri-Pierre Roché | Henri Langlois | Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg | Henri Fantin-Latour | Paul-Henri Spaak | Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre | Henri Wallon | Henri Vieuxtemps | Henri Vernes | Henri Salvador | Henri Pousseur | Henri Michaux | Henri Guillaumet | Henri Estienne | Lycée Henri-IV | Henri Tajfel | Henri Sauguet |
Motives from this opera were the inspiration for the 1952 composition La guirlande de Campra, a collaboration between Georges Auric, Arthur Honegger, Francis Poulenc and Germaine Tailleferre from the group Les Six, and by Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur, Alexis Roland-Manuel and Henri Sauguet.
The audience present included such respected persons as Arthur Honegger, Georges Auric, Francis Poulenc, Henri Sauguet, Roland-Manuel, André Jolivet, Claude Delvincourt, Lazare Lévy, Daniel-Lesur, Irène Joachim, Maurice Gendron, Jean Wiener, Georges Braque, Paul Eluard, Pierre Reverdy, Pierre Boulez, Serge Nigg, and Pierre Henry.