A dire nautical theme in today’s morning names: le naufrage ‘shipwreck, sinking’ and le naufragé ‘shipwreck victim, castaway’, powerful elements of popular culture and frequent subjects of news stories, books, and films. I was first taken to le naufrage de l’Andrea Doria, an event that vividly evoked the summer before my junior year in high … Continue reading le naufrage, le naufragé