Baby Gaga, The Idiot’s 4.9-year old granddaughter who is about to start school in Paris, had the temerity to criticize her grandfather’s accent when he spoke French to her the other day.
“You know, Papi Joël, your French isn’t very good with that American accent,” Baby Gaga said after The Idiot mentioned that the first phrase he learned in French from a girlfriend over fifty years ago was “L’amour, l’amour fait tourner le monde.” (“Love, love makes the world go round.”)
”You know, Baby Gaga, a lot of French men tell me that my accent is sympathique (pleasant) and many French women tell me that it’s séduisant (seductive),” The Idiot told her. “In fact, I just conducted a poll and here’s what I learned from different French people.”
Baby Gaga, The Idiot’s 4.9-year-old granddaughter, thinks: “The Idiot’s accent in French is not very good.”
Author George Sand thinks: “The Idiot’s French is a grammatical scandal.”
King Louis XIV thinks: “The Idiot should be exiled, if not guillotined, for the way he butchers our language.”
Saint Genevieve, the patroness saint of Paris, thinks: “The Idiot’s French is very spiritually soothing.”
A French female gardener thinks: “The Idiot’s French makes me absolutely blossom.”
The concierge at the pavilion on rue des Archives, where The Idiot lived from 1971-73, thinks: “Amazingly The Idiot’s French hasn’t gotten any better in 50 years.”
A sculpture on the ramparts in Antibes thinks: “It makes me want to jump.”
The women in Eugène Leroy’s “Nudes” at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris think: “There is nothing more stimulating than a man speaking to us in American-accented French.”
Baby Gogo, The Idiot’s 2.28-year-old grandson, said “I hope I grow up speaking French like The Idiot.”
A random woman in Luxembourg gardens reflected and said “You know, I’m not so sure.”
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