Les Tetons
by wjw on August 25, 2017
Here we have the Grand Tetons, named (I imagine) by a very lonely and somewhat nearsighted French voyageur.
Some decades ago I was visiting France, and fell into a conversation with a young French woman. It went something like that.
SHE: Is it true that in America you have mountains called ‘les grandes tétons?'”
ME: Oui. C’est vrai. [Note my immaculate French]
SHE: But how is that? Is it not that America is a Puritan country?
ME: American puritans don’t read French.
Whatever the Puritans might think of them, the mountains were pretty splendid.
