i just came over a quote by Nietzsche that goes: "j'ai oublié mon parapluie," or i have forgotten my umbrella. any possibility that it's the origin of your umbrella? even if it's not i still like the coincidence
that's not a coincidence, but it is involved in another coincidence: just a couple of days ago, for some reason i couldn't remember the netherlands word for umbrella, so i checked on google translate, and just to make sure i got the context right, i used the phrase "i forgot my umbrella". i've never heard the quote you mentioned, that's just the phrase i used. and of course the netherlands word for umbrella is in fact similar to the french word that you used