Le Mans trivia for French speakers

[Bobo W]

What does Tetre Rouge mean ?

[hansgerd]

Little red hill.

[MarkBarton]

Literally "Red Hillock" (or Mound, or Knoll).

D'oh - Pescaroloed it looking for a trivia question in return!





>> Edited by MarkBarton on Tuesday 21st June 14:29

[piglet]

It's tertre though not tetre though I think.

[MarkBarton]

piglet said:

It's tertre though not tetre though I think.

It certainly is. Can't find a definition for tetre - closest I could get was either tétée (which I suppose could be rouge), or téter which couldn't. The things you learn

[Bobo W]

Thanks I think.

There are numerous places within Le Mans that are called Tertre Rouge including a gynaecology clinic but references to the corner on the race track / the pub seem to suggest Tetre Rouge. Is this a subtle variation on the same word or does it mean something else ?

Having spent what seemed to be the whole weekend there drinking copius amounts of nelson it would be nice to know the meaning of the name

[MarkBarton]

The official map of the circuit (look under Pratique - Accès on the lemans.org site) shows it as Tertre, and there's no Tetre in the dictionary (at least, not in mine!).

My dictionary also shows tertre as meaning "burial mound" so there may be a story there...

>> Edited by MarkBarton on Tuesday 21st June 18:05