sentences:  The young Dolly called her brother "Messieu Aoul", which Fauré took as the original title for the piece.In his finished manuscript the title is shortened to "Miaou" (without hyphens).The Fauré scholar Robert Orledge writes that the title "Mi-a-ou", like that of the "Kitty-valse" later in the suite, is the responsibility of Fauré's publisher, Julien Hamelle.