In the seventeenth century Françoise d’Aubigné, a three-year-old French girl, was pronounced dead at sea and sewn into a sack to be thrown overboard. A sudden meow revealed that her pet cat had crawled into the bag. When the cat was recovered from the sack, the girl was found to be very much alive. She later became the second wife of King Louis XIV and died at age eighty-three.
