City of Lights has benefited from a zoo since 1793, the French Revolution in full swing. Under a decision of the National Council the same year, all privately owned exotic animals were either donated from Versaiiles Menajeriei (future zoo), or killed, stuffed and donated to science museums. The true founding fathers of the important cultural and scientific settlement of Paris was Jacques-Henry Bernardin de Saint Pierre (1737-1814). He was faithful to the principle of holding anima...