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La Farce de Maître Pathelin
La Farce de Maître Pathelin, also known as Maistre Pierre Pathelin, is an anonymous French comic play of the mid-15th century, considered a masterpiece of medieval farce.
La Fée aux Choux
La Fée aux Choux (The Cabbage Fairy) is a one-minute French silent film attributed to Alice Guy at Gaumont, claimed as her 1896 directorial debut; the surviving 1900 version shows a fairy harvesting babies from cabbages, with a 1902 remake, Sage-femme de première classe.
La Femme Nikita (film)
La Femme Nikita, known as Nikita in France, is a 1990 French-Italian action thriller by Luc Besson where Anne Parillaud is a sentenced killer trained as a government assassin.
La Femme Nikita (TV series)
La Femme Nikita, also known as Nikita, is a Canadian action-drama series (1997–2001, 96 episodes) on USA Network and CTV, starring Peta Wilson as an agent of Section One, adapted from Luc Besson's 1990 film.
La Fenice
Teatro La Fenice, Venice's main opera house on Campo San Fantin, inaugurated 1792, designed by Selva; twice burned (1836, 1996 arson) and rebuilt, reopened 2003; site of Verdi premieres Rigoletto and La traviata.
La Ferreria
La Ferrería is an archaeological zone 7 km south of Durango city, Mexico, the northernmost Mesoamerican site and main center of the Chalchihuites culture's Guadiana branch, occupied 600–1350 CE with pyramid, ballcourt, and sunken patios.
La fête est finie
La fête est finie is the third studio album by French rapper Orelsan, released in October 2017; it debuted at number 1 in France and won three Victoires de la musique.
La fille du régiment
La fille du régiment, or The Daughter of the Regiment, is an opéra comique by Gaetano Donizetti. It tells the story of a girl raised by a French regiment, featuring Tonio's famous aria.
La fille mal gardée
La Fille mal gardée (The Wayward Daughter), ballet-pantomime by Jean Dauberval premiered at Bordeaux on 1 July 1789 as Le ballet de la paille; the oldest ballet in the classical repertory, best known through Ashton's 1960 Royal Ballet production to Hérold-Lanchbery music.
La fille mal gardée (Ashton)
La fille mal gardée (Ashton) is Frederick Ashton's 1960 Royal Ballet staging of Dauberval's 1789 ballet, with music by Hérold arranged by John Lanchbery, created by Nadia Nerina, David Blair, and Stanley Holden, famous for the Fanny Elssler pas de deux and clog dance.
La Fin de Satan
La Fin de Satan (The End of Satan) is an unfinished epic poem in alexandrine verse by Victor Hugo, written in exile from 1854 and published posthumously in 1886.
La fiorita
SP La Fiorita (La Fiorita 1967) is a football club from Montegiardino, San Marino, founded 1936 and refounded 1967; 6 league titles, 8 Coppa Titano, 6 Supercoppa, and continuous UEFA qualifying play since 2012.
LA Fitness
LA Fitness, also known as LA Fitness International, is a large American gym chain founded in Southern California in 1984, with more than 600 locations and over 3.7 million members.
La Flaca
La Flaca is the 1996 debut album by the Spanish band Jarabe de Palo, written by Pau Donés and made famous by a Ducados advertising campaign.
La Flor
La Flor (2018) is Mariano Llinás's 14-hour Argentine episodic film: six genre stories, four Piel de Lava actresses, premiered at Locarno, BAFICI Best Film, Metascore 77.
La Folie des grandeurs
La Folie des grandeurs (Delusions of Grandeur) is Gérard Oury's 1971 French comedy adapting Victor Hugo's Ruy Blas, starring Louis de Funès as Don Salluste and Yves Montand as Blaze, with Alice Sapritch; it drew about 5.6 million admissions in France.
La Fonteta
La Fonteta is a Phoenician settlement at the mouth of the Río Segura in Guardamar del Segura, Spain, occupied from the 8th to the 6th century BC.
La Forêt Classée et Réserve Partielle de Faune Comoé-Léraba
La Forêt Classée et Réserve Partielle de Faune Comoé-Léraba (Ramsar Site 1878) is a 124,510 ha community-managed protected area in southwest Burkina Faso at the Comoé-Léraba river confluence, bordering Côte d'Ivoire, rich in flora and endangered wildlife.
La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico
La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico, a 1983 UNESCO World Heritage Site (criterion vi), comprises La Fortaleza, El Morro, San Cristóbal, El Cañuelo, and the Old San Juan city walls, Spanish Caribbean defenses built from the 1530s onward.
La France (airship)
La France was a French army airship that in 1884 became the first aircraft to fly a closed circuit, returning to its start under its own power.
La France Insoumise
La France Insoumise, also known as France Unbowed, is a French left-wing political movement founded in 2016 by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, initially to carry his 2017 presidential candidacy.
La Frontera
La Frontera (The Frontier) is a 1991 Chilean-Spanish drama directed by Ricardo Larraín, starring Patricio Contreras as a teacher sentenced to internal exile under Pinochet; it won the 1992 Silver Bear and Goya Award.
La Gaceta de Cuba
La Gaceta de Cuba is a Cuban cultural magazine of art and literature, founded in Havana in 1962 by the poet Nicolás Guillén and published by UNEAC.
La Gaceta Literaria
La Gaceta Literaria was a fortnightly cultural periodical published in Madrid from 1927 to 1932, closely identified with Spain's Generation of '27 and directed by Ernesto Giménez Caballero.
La Galatea
La Galatea is a pastoral novel in six books by Miguel de Cervantes, published in Alcalá de Henares in 1585 as his first printed work.
LA Galaxy
LA Galaxy, MLS soccer club in Carson, California, founded 1996 as an original franchise; six MLS Cups (2002, 2005, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2024), home Dignity Health Sports Park, owned by AEG, El Tráfico rival LAFC.
La Galère
La Galère: anse and archaeological site on Porquerolles island, Hyères, France; a Massaliote (Greek) village built early 1st century BC, abandoned around 50/30 BC; ancient name unknown.
La Galigo
La Galigo, also known as Sureq Galigo, is a Bugis epic cycle from South Sulawesi, Indonesia, of pre-Islamic oral roots from about the 14th century.
La Gárgola
La Gárgola (Spanish for "the gargoyle") is the seventh studio album by Chicago rock band Chevelle, released April 1, 2014 on Epic; produced by Joe Barresi, ten tracks, 47:32, with singles "Take Out the Gunman" and "Hunter Eats Hunter".
La Garita Caldera
La Garita Caldera, also called the La Garita supervolcano, is a large eroded caldera in southwestern Colorado formed about 28 million years ago by the Fish Canyon Tuff supereruption.