“Edgar Rice Burroughs’s famous ape man is the subject of a [highly popular] summer show at the Musée du Quai Branly … Its organizers cogitate, with Gallic élan, on Tarzan’s proto-environmentalism; his philosophical roots in Rousseau and the 19th-century nudist movement; his literary antecedents in Kipling and H. M. Stanley; and his mythological reliance on the stories of Hercules and Romulus and Remus.”