 Wherever the scent of burning felines could be found, a smile was sure to follow.Cat-burning was the subject of a 1758 text from the Benedictine Dom Jean François, "Dissertation sur l’ancien usage des feux de la Saint-Jean, et d’y brûler les chats à Metz", recently published.Jean Meslier, a French Catholic priest who privately held atheist views, briefly mentioned the practice of cat burning in his "Testament" as follows