That colour is not really "allowed" but It can appear now and then in some lunes because of he cats used with foundation bengals. They can be show in a new traits, I think. I do not know if there are any breeders working on this color to be accepted, as they are with blue bengals.@ValerieB Now Im at my computer, its easier to write than on the Iphone.
I still think she is unusual for a common red moggie. Neither is the marble pattern is very typical classic tabby, it reminds sooner of the marbles of a marbled bengal.
I do notice she has a white spot on the chin, and some of the white hairs on belly do wander some up into the swirls near the belly. Purebred bengals has never white spots - but we arent talking about purebreds.
But the high contrasts in the swirls isnt only because of the white hairs wandering up. On other pics we can see the contrast is unusually high anyway for a red cat.
So perhaps not just a common red, but for example, a cinnamon? Which is sorts of dark red.
Cinnamon isnt common in the general moggie population, but appears among them purebred.
Thus, I do think here must be an Ancestor. Possibly marbled bengal, if cinnamon is allowed there....
You are now living in France, where roots and old nobility still do matters. Remind them, your sweetie isnt just a typical american self made girl. She does has roots, and she does has Old Ancestry.
She has no papers nor sword, but she has her claws and teeths if it will be anytime necessary to prove and defend.
@ValerieB, just as @stefanz said, I think you may be right, there might be some Bengal in there. That face shape is quite quite nice for a Bengal, and so is her body structure. She is the same age as my purebreed bengal Freya and I can see some resemblance there, if you ignore her colour.
I cannot say the same about @britanyk22 boy. If there is any bengal in Gatsby, it is well hidden.