affair. Fadinard arrives in search of the straw hat but fails to find it. Act 4 Intermezzo: A Paris street The bedraggled and exhausted wedding procession, with Nonancourt and his daughter, sings the same old refrain: "Tutta Parigi noi giriam", and sets out for Fadinard's house. It starts to rain. Square with a guard-post in front of Fadinard's house The wedding procession arrives with open umbrellas, soaking wet and exhausted. Nonancourt orders Felice, the butler, to give back all the wedding presents and the dowry: he is going straight back to Charantonneau with his daughter. But Elena, by now completely in love with her new husband, refuses to leave. Meanwhile, Fadinard comes running up all out of breath: Beaupertuis is about to arrive with the intention of shooting his wife who is up in his house. When Nonancourt hears there is another woman in his son-in-law's house his fury knows no bounds; he insists upon leaving at once with all his things. A tussle ensues, in which the deaf uncle, Vézinet, takes part in order to salvage the box containing his wedding present: a florentine straw hat! At the sight of the hat, Fadinard rejoices and runs into the house to get Anaide and give her the hat which has finally been found. The patrol guard's return from their rounds only to find Nonancourt and his relatives about to leave with the bundles and parcels, and suspecting they are thieves, have them shut up in the guard-house. When Fadinard comes out with Anaide and Emilio, the hat is no longer in the box: Nonancourt has carried it off. What to do? Emilio, the enterprising officer, rushes into the guard-post to recover the hat. Meanwhile, Beaupertuis arrives in a carriage. An animated scene follows: Fadinard tries to hide Anaide from her husband, disguising her as a sentry. Emilio tosses the hat out of the window of the guard-post, and the hat remains dangling on the wire holding up the street-lamp. While Fadinard does everything possible to distract the attention of the fuming husband, Emilio manages to cut the wire with his sword: the lamp crashes to the ground along with the hat, plunging the square into pitch darkness. Hearing the racket, the guards come running, the people living on the square light lamps and peer out of their windows in their nightshirts. But in the meantime, Anaide has donned the florentine