List of U.S. Place Names of French Origin - Arizona

Arizona

  • Clemenceau (Named after the French prime minister during World War I)
  • Picket Wire (Corruption of the French Purgatoire, "Purgatory")
  • Peridot

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Famous quotes containing the word arizona:

    “The Great Arizona Desert is full of the bleaching bones of people who waited for me to start something.”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

    “Desert rains are usually so definitely demarked that the story of the man who washed his hands in the edge of an Arizona thunder shower without wetting his cuffs seems almost credible.”
    —Administration in the State of Ariz, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)