{"id":2234,"date":"2025-03-18T12:02:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enjoyjersey.co.uk\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2025-03-18T12:02:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:02:35","slug":"walking-cats-and-wearing-trousers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enjoyjersey.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/walking-cats-and-wearing-trousers\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking cats and wearing trousers"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Claude Cahun_Plaque_Saint Brelade and Claude_Cahun_gravestone<\/strong><\/h3>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Claude Cahun:<\/strong> artist<\/p>

Born:<\/strong> Nantes, France, 1894<\/p>

Died:<\/strong> Jersey, 1854<\/p>

Buried at:<\/strong> St. Brelade\u2019s Church, where they walked their beloved cats<\/p>

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\u201cShuffle the cards. Masculine? Feminine? It depends on the situation. Neuter is the only gender that always suits me.\u201d –\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Claude Cahun<\/strong><\/p>

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Jersey is home to the world\u2019s best collection of work by Claude Cahun, a surrealist artist, photographer and writer of growing relevance today.<\/p>

Born Lucy Schwob in Nantes in 1894, Cahun died on Jersey in 1954 and is buried at St. Brelade\u2019s Church, next to the house she had shared with her partner Marcel Moore (Suzanne Malherbe).<\/p>

During their lifetime, the couple became village eccentrics, walking their cat (called Kid) on a lead, wearing trousers, and making art in and around their house. Initially, they found life in Jersey to be a \u201choliday without end\u201d, says the Jersey Archive.\u00a0However, as a result of their two-woman Nazi resistance campaign, the couple were arrested and imprisoned in St. Helier in 1944. They remained there, narrowly avoiding the death sentence, until Jersey was liberated in 1945.<\/p>

Moore died in 1972 and is buried at St. Brelade\u2019s Church alongside Cahun.<\/p>

You can visit the church and their graves on the south west side of the island, overlooking St. Brelade\u2019s Bay<\/a>.<\/p>

Their work is not on permanent display in Jersey, but you can find out more and get permission to view the archive here<\/a><\/p>

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