 Parisians liked to incinerate cats by the sackful, while the Courimauds (or "cour à miaud" or cat chasers) of Saint Chamond preferred to chase a flaming cat through the streets.In parts of Burgundy and Lorraine they danced around a kind of burning May pole with a cat tied to it.In the Metz region they burned a dozen cats at a time in a basket on top of a bonfire.