Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Athenais Sophie

While it is not confirmed Mark and I hope to adopt the one female from Ginnie's litter. You may identify her below with the pink, which looks white, ribbon in the photos below. As she is a pedigree Chartreux, a marvelous French breed with luxurious rich soft fur of a bleu-gris shade, and as I am a great lover of France and her decorative and fine arts and her history, I've decided to bestow her with the name of one of Louis XV mistresses, an accomplished and lovely woman by all accounts. She was lady in waiting to another mistress and was supposed to be the diversion, allowing the king to vist the apartments under a ruse. But her own charms soon won the day. Her name was Athenais. Our darling will have an official name of Athenais Sophie, Comtesse d'Artois, and we shall call her Sophie, and no doubt a multiple of charming nick-names!

Athenais' heritage is fifty percent European and fifty percent American, so we hope her appearance will favor the mother's European descent. She will be adored and loved, nevertheless, whichever direction her genes may take her!

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