This was fun to follow-up. Officials from other nations (like Count de Saint-Quentin) are posted to another country during a War and have to stand up for their country in another country. Marketing Marianne : French Propaganda in America, 1900-1940 tells the story. I just can't imagine how it must have been for Count de Saint-Quentin showing up in Washington DC to defend the honor of France against Hollywood movies wearing that hat. It's a picture from the 1940s! He was still wearing that hat. I should not be commenting on my posts, probably, but please look at that hat!!! Can you imagine, say, a Senator from Idaho going to an embassy party with the Count???
This was fun to follow-up. Officials from other nations (like Count de Saint-Quentin) are posted to another country during a War and have to stand up for their country in another country. Marketing Marianne : French Propaganda in America, 1900-1940 tells the story. I just can't imagine how it must have been for Count de Saint-Quentin showing up in Washington DC to defend the honor of France against Hollywood movies wearing that hat. It's a picture from the 1940s! He was still wearing that hat. I should not be commenting on my posts, probably, but please look at that hat!!! Can you imagine, say, a Senator from Idaho going to an embassy party with the Count???
please look at that hat!!! Can you imagine, say, a Senator from Idaho going to an embassy party with the Count???
A Senator from California would invent a hat tax that resulted in the Senator confiscating the hat and then wearing it everywhere.