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The Great Cat Massacre, was a mass killing carried out in the late 1730s around Rue Saint-Séverin in Paris by apprentices and journeymen at a printing workshop, targeting cats. The daily routine of workshop life sharply diverged between the master and the household on one side and the apprentices on the other. Apprentices worked under heavy burdens; the inequality in food and sleep arrangements intensified workshop tensions, as even the master’s cats lived in better conditions than the apprentic