“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, by Mark Twain" La Grenouille Sauteuse

Mark Twain's 1865 short story about an addicted bet-maker in frontier California and his unusual frog was Twain's first national, literary success.  Join us on Zoom to learn the story and why the French version supposedly published in Paris in a review of American humorists in 1872 so annoyed Mark Twain. It is a cautionary tale about the perils of translating between two languages that could apply to any of us!