Knot True

My five-year-old daughter was bragging today that she knew how to tie a triple knot on her shoes. However, she focuses so much and moves so slowly that the knots are completely ineffective. I informed her that only the French can effectively tie such knots. As everyone knows, their knot is called le noeud de tres-ques (literally, "the knot of three-what" - it's a French thing), though often the first bit is dropped, colloquially. Unfortunately, this means my daughter had tied a too loose le tres-ques.