A Texan's Accent for French Fables

"Now a Texas-born director [Robert Wilson] with only rudimentary French has for the first time staged a selection of the fables at the Comédie Française, the shrine of French literary classicism.

As Mr. Wilson put it, 'they let this guy from Texas come and direct a treasure of their culture.'"

Funny that the Americans call him Robert Wilson while in France he's known as Bob Wilson.

Robert Wilson, like Robert Rauschenberg, is one of those Texans known and admired world-round but little known in his native state. Houston and Dallas can offer sumptuous fine-art museums, opera and symphony, but only Europe can offer admiring crowds from the mainstream.