It has black button eyes and long, thin whiskers that tremble when it looks around curiously.
Unlike most rats, this one has a name, Plume, and gets to enjoy the rare privilege of wandering around Paris on the shoulder of its owner, a local politician.
Gregory Moreau, a Paris district deputy mayor, is on a mission to reconcile residents with the capital’s population of rats which, it is said, outnumber the French inner city’s two million human residents by a big margin.
“Hello, have you ever…