chaintete

Updated: June 29, 2025

By these two gentlemen I was conducted into the Pope's presence. Being very ignorant of the proper ceremonial to follow, I asked M. Rossi what I was to call his Holiness. "Tres chaint Pere, ou cha Chaintete," he answered, with an accent which I took good care not to imitate.

Prince De Joinville - Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville