Saved by a Whisker

While on a ship at sea ,the three-year-old Marquise de Maintenon was pronounced dead and sewn up in a sack to be thrown overboard. Luckily,her pet kitten had crawled inside the sack and began meowing during the funeral service. The mourners stopped the service,opened the sack. They discovered that the little girl was breathing. She later became the second wife of Louis the fourteenth,and lived to the age of 84.

Learn about Marquise de Maintenon at : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise_d%27Aubign%C3%A9,_Marquise_de_Maintenon