Breaux Bridge, Louisiana is known for two things. Crawfish and its eponymous bridge. The town is the “Crawfish Capital of the World,” or “la capitale mondiale de l’écrevisse,” if you prefer it in French. And why not, it is Louisiana after all. The first weekend in May each year the town hosts the Breaux Bridge Crawfish Festival, a celebration of all that is crawfish and Cajun. The rest of the year, they have the bridge. The town itself was named for an early Acadian pioneer, Firmin Breaux, who by 1786 was one of Bayou Teche’s largest land owners. It was Breaux who built the first pedestrian suspension footbridge across the…