{"id":2239,"date":"2013-08-19T05:27:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T03:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2013-08-19T05:27:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T03:27:37","slug":"fuss-about-a-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eugenedemazenod.net\/?p=2239","title":{"rendered":"FUSS ABOUT A HAT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Even were my uncle to label me with the title of being a scatterbrain, I ought not to pass over in silence a rather annoying little mishap which happened to me at this place. In a hurry to get to the church, I asked a travelling companion, who was to find a coach to take us to Nice, to remove my things from the vehicle which we had taken at Cannes. He put into custody, in fact, my trunk, my night bag and my umbrella; but, not having noticed the hat box, in which there was also my famous velvet headgear and some clerical collars, he let the coach depart laden with my things. When I came back from the church, there was no longer time. We had to leave for Nice where I arrived hatless. I had almost been obliged to leave it behind at Aix: that makes two incidents which prove that hats are made to be placed on the head. All hope however is not lost: the innkeeper at Antibes promised to claim it that very day and to send it to me today at Nice. It is now five o\u2019clock and I have not seen it arrive. You see, my dear, that my journey, although not heroic, is not without its moments.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n
I arrived at last at Nice with the fifth coach, counting that which took me from Marseilles to Aix, and on entering the inn, I took care to let the canon rector know that I was confined to the inn until he might send me a hat. I prayed God while waiting, more or less well, and the hat having been sent to me, in the absence of the rector, by his servant, I went out to make the expected visit to the Bishop\u2026<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Letter to Henri Tempier, # November 1825, EO VI n 204<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0Obviously in those days one did not appear for visits to important people without wearing a hat!<\/p>\n

As we smile at Eugene\u2019s consternation, here is a \u201chat quote\u201d worthy of a smile: \u201cA crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.\u201d Frederick the Great<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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