Mme. Rubens-Chatte

Mme. Rubens-Chatte
Background information
Feature films	Gay Purr-ee
Voice	Hermione Gingold
Character information
Full name	Madame Rubens-Chatte
Other names	Dear sister (by Meowrice)
Occupation	Teacher of etiquette for female cats
Alignment	Neutral
Nationality	French
Goal	To teach Mewsette to become a sophisticated feline (succeeded)
Home	France
Relatives	Meowrice (brother)
Allies	Meowrice (formerly), Mewsette, Jaune Tom, Robespierre
Enemies	Meowrice
Likes	Teaching female cats (like Mewsette) to be sophisticated and about manners, Mewsette succeeding her studies, Mewsette's praise and full belief in her that she could become a feline, being payed in full, money
Dislikes	Mewsette bumbling up her studies, being splashed in the face with a milk bowl by Mewsette, failure, receiving a check with disappearing ink, Meowrice's schemes, Mewsette in danger
Fate	Watches Mewsette become a feline as she goes out with Meowrice, who gives her a check with disappearing ink and tears it up in two, and later warns Jaune-Tom and Robespierre about Mewsette's distress
Quote	"Now look child. We don't want to disappoint Meowrice, do we?"

“Do you know? If the opportunity arose to do him a disservice, I might not be able to resist it.”

―Mme. Rubens-Chatte

Mme. Rubens-Chatte is a minor character of 1962 Warner Bros. animated film Gay Purr-ee. She is voiced by Hermione Gingold.

Background

Official Description

Mme. Rubens-Chatte is a Persian cat who is Meowrice's "sister" and is amply-contoured, crafty, and a force to be reckoned with. She runs a salon called Salon De Beaute Pour Felines.

Personality

Mme. Rubens-Chatte is amply-contoured, crafty, and a force to be reckoned with.

Physical appearance

Mme. Rubens Chatte is a pink overweight Persian cat with green eyes and purple eye shadows. She has a white stole around her neck and a beauty mark shaped like a star beneath her left eye and whiskers.

Role in the film

Her "brother" Meowrice takes advantage of Mewsette's naivete, and he puts her in the care of her. She promises to turn Mewsette into a dainty debutante known as "The Belle of all Paris". Unbeknownst to Mme. Rubens-Chatte and Mewsette, Meowrice, is grooming her to be the mail-order bride of a rich American cat in Pittsburgh known as "Mr. Henry Phtt".

Training does not go well. Just as Mewsette is about to give up and return to the farm, Meowrice takes her out to see the cat side of Paris, the Eiffel Tower, the Champs-Élysées, and the Mewlon Rouge and then take a buggy ride back home. Reinvigorated, Mewsette returns to her studies. Mewsette finishes her training and is now lovely enough to impress even Meowrice, who commissions a series of paintings of her by such famous artists as Claude Monet, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Georges Seurat, Henri Rousseau, Amedeo Modigliani, Vincent van Gogh, Edgar Degas, Auguste Renoir, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin and Pablo Picasso so that he can send them to Mr. Phtt. Meowrice quietly writes a check to pay Mme. Reubens-Chatte (using disappearing ink so that the check is worthless) takes Mewsette to his hideout in Notre Dame. When Jaune Tom and Robespierre arrive, they have been aided by Madame Ruebens-Chatte, who is irritated that her own "brother" double-crossed her and tears up the worthless check.

Trivia

• Mme. Rubens-Chatte is an overweight cat. Artist Sir Peter Paul Rubens was noted for painting large women so often that the term "Rubenesque" basically means overweight. Chatte is French for cat.

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Media Films: Gay Purr-ee • Video Books: Little Golden Book • Big Golden Book Music: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Characters Mewsette • Jaune Tom • Robespierre • Meowrice • Mme. Rubens-Chatte • Meowrice's minions • Butterfly • Ladies from Provence • Man on Ship • Bulldog Locations France • Paris, France • Alaska • Ladies from Provence's house Objects Songs Gay Purr-ee • Mewsette • Little Drops of Rain • The Money Cat • Take My Hand Paree • Paris is a Lonely Town • Bubbles • Roses Red, Violets Blue • The Horse Won't Talk See also Warner Bros. Cartoons • Warner Bros. Animation • Chuck Jones