
17/07/2025
Coming up in Autumn 2026:
Le Chat Noir: Alternative Histories … With Cats.
In history, be it in the wild or content in our houses, Panthera or Felinae, felis domesticus or the ancestor of the tabby on your couch, Proailurus, cats have had a unique place. Loved, adored, worshiped, cherished and hated, feared and persecuted in equal measure we dedicate this issue to The Cat.
Premise: In an alternate world, Le Chat Noir at 84 Boulevard de Rochechouart, is presided over by Madame La Ch**te and Les Hydropathes, who eschew water for wine and advocate their sociopolitical and aesthetic agendas.
The patrons come through a secret door on the Seine from places and times where history has run very differently, all because of a Cat. What tales do the patrons of this establishment bring? What secrets are shared between the numbers by the chanteuse of the evening and, especially, when the night grows old and even Paris sleeps? What empires have risen and fallen because of the whispers shared in the darkened corners of the Cabaret between worlds and at the edge of time?
Call for Autumn 2026