La vache qui pleure waltz of fiddle, accordion and guitars." All songs by Kate & Anna McGarrigle and Philippe Tatartcheff, except where noted. La vache qui pleure La vache qui pleure is the ninth album by Kate & Anna McGarrigle, released in 2003. It is named after a prehistoric bas-relief (stone carving) near Djanet in the south of Algeria which is pictured on the album cover. Its title "La vache qui pleure" (French for "The crying cow") may also be a joke with the famous French cheese label "La vache qui rit" ("The laughing cow"). It is the sisters' second full album of French
Le Règne Animal it was paradoxically "the precision of his anatomical descriptions and the importance of his research on fossil bones", showing for instance that mammoths were extinct elephants, that enabled later naturalists including Darwin to argue convincingly that animals had evolved. Le Règne Animal Le Règne Animal (The Animal Kingdom) is the most famous work of the French naturalist Georges Cuvier. It sets out to describe the natural structure of the whole of the animal kingdom based on comparative anatomy, and its natural history. Cuvier divided the animals into four "embranchements" ("Branches", roughly corresponding to phyla), namely vertebrates, molluscs, articulated animals (arthropods