Book Description

On the morning of Fadinard's wedding day, his horse eats a straw hat belonging to Anaïs, while she is hidden behind a bush talking with her lover. The couple follow him to his house and refuse to leave it until Fadinard replaces the hat with an identical one, since Anaïs's husband is jealous and astonished by the hat's disappearance. Saying nothing to his fiancee, who keeps following him, Fadinard leaves to look for an identical hat - seemingly a simple task at first, it soon becomes harder and harder. The denouement finally occurs in the street outside Fadinard's house.