Chartreux Breed Description
Chartreux Cat | Breed History | Breed Description The Chartreux may be one of The Cat Fanciers’ Association’s oldest new breeds. Chartreux history is steeped in legend, even though the breed was only advanced to championship status in 1987. There exists a lovely old legend that the Chartreux lived with, and were named for, the Carthusian monks of France, and perhaps even shared a...
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Chartreux Cat | Breed History | Breed Description Stories of the “blue cats of France” began during the sixteenth century. It is thought that these cats descend from the “Cat of Syria,” described in the 16th century as a stocky cat with a wooly ash-gray coat and copper eyes, which was first brought to Europe during the Crusades. People probably began to use the name...
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Chartreux Cat | Breed History | Breed Description The Chartreux is an internationally-recognized breed of domestic cat. Chartreux cats are from France, reportedly originally bred by Carthusian Catholic monks at their monastery in Grenoble for the purposes of catching mice to preserve food storages from loss and damage. Legend has it the Chartreux’s ancestors were feral mountain cats from...
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