Ramage & the Guillotine (1975)
“Louis had warned them that the innkeeper was a Revolutionary: a former corporal who had lost a leg in Spain, though it was generally believed among his customers that it happened during a fracas in a brothel rather than in a desperate affray with the enemy. But the smuggler had also explained that quite apart from the fact that it was cheap, clean and known for its good plain food, it was also just the place that Italian carpenters working at either of the shipyards would choose. More important... still, no one would ever dream that a British naval officer and three of his men—spies, no less—would dare to stay under his roof. The regular twice-weekly inspections of inns carried out by gendarmes all over the country were cursory; at the sign of Le Chapeau Rouge, merely an excuse for a glass of wine.
Rossi had startled Louis by declaring, with a straight face, that a man owning an inn with that name must be an agent of the Vatican, not a Revolutionary, and Louis had begun a vociferous denial before Ramage, worried that their English might be overheard, explained Rossi’s play on the fact that a Catholic cleric wore the biretta, “the red hat,”MoreLess
Rossi had startled Louis by declaring, with a straight face, that a man owning an inn with that name must be an agent of the Vatican, not a Revolutionary, and Louis had begun a vociferous denial before Ramage, worried that their English might be overheard, explained Rossi’s play on the fact that a Catholic cleric wore the biretta, “the red hat,”MoreLess
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