French vs. "red" and "orange" (off-topic)

[Wilson Gray]

About 35 years ago, I read, in a book on color terms in language,
something to the effect that French color words do not distinguish
"red" from "orange." Several years later, I met a woman who was a
native speaker of Parisian French. When I asked her about the lack of
distinction between "red" and "orange" in French, her reply was that of
course French can distinguish between "red" and "orange." Pourquoi pas?
As I was turning away, disappointed in my expectations, she continued,
"A funny thing, though. My father is an artist and you'd expect that he
would know better. But he thinks that red and orange are the same
color!"

-Wilson Gray