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Le ceneri di Gramsci
Le ceneri di Gramsci (Gramsci's Ashes) is a 1957 collection of eleven long poems by Pier Paolo Pasolini, centered on an elegy at Antonio Gramsci's grave in Rome.
Le Cercle Rouge
Le Cercle Rouge (The Red Circle) is Jean-Pierre Melville's 1970 French-Italian heist film starring Alain Delon, Gian Maria Volonté, Yves Montand, and André Bourvil, named for a Buddhist epigraph about fated meetings.
Le Chat
Le Chat is an AI assistant built by the French company Mistral, launched in web beta in 2024 and positioned as Europe's alternative to ChatGPT.
Le Chat Noir
Le Chat Noir, the Black Cat cabaret of Montmartre, Paris, founded by Rodolphe Salis in November 1881 and closed in 1897; the first artistic cabaret, with its own weekly journal, shadow theatre by Henri Rivière, and Steinlen's 1896 poster.
Le Chatelier's principle
Le Chatelier's principle, also called the Le Chatelier-Braun principle, states that an equilibrium system shifts to counteract a change in conditions, proposed by Henry-Louis Le Chatelier in 1884.
Le Chèvrefeuille
Le Chèvrefeuille, known in Old French as Chevrefoil or Chievrefueil, is the shortest lai of Marie de France, recounting an episode of Tristan and Iseut.
Le Chi Vien incident
The Le Chi Vien incident (Vụ án Lệ Chi Viên) was the 1442 death of King Le Thai Tong, followed by the execution of Nguyen Trai and Nguyen Thi Lo.
Le Chieu Tong
Le Chieu Tong (Lê Chiêu Tông), personal name Le Y, was emperor of Dai Viet from 1516 to 1522, deposed and killed on Mac Dang Dung's order.
Le Chiffre
Le Chiffre, French for "the cipher", is the villain of Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel, Casino Royale (1953), played on screen by Mads Mikkelsen in 2006.
Le Cid
Le Cid: five-act verse tragi-comédie by Pierre Corneille, premiered 7 January 1637 at the Théâtre du Marais, adapted from Guillén de Castro's Las Mocedades del Cid, sparking the Querelle du Cid.
Le Ciliegeta
Le Ciliegeta, original name of the Lago degli Idoli on Monte Falterona, Tuscany: an Etruscan votive lake sanctuary near the Arno springs, drained in 1838 after a bronze Heracles find, yielding about 650 statuettes and 14,111 finds in 2003-2007 digs.
Le Cimetière marin
Le Cimetière marin is a 1920 poem by Paul Valéry, a meditation on death and the sea set in the marine cemetery above Sète, his home town.
Le Club de la Glisse
Le Club de la Glisse, surf school founded 1988 on Marinella beach, Anglet, Basque Country, France; FFS-accredited since 2000, state-certified instructors, group max 8, season April to November.
Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene
Le Colline del Prosecco di Conegliano e Valdobbiadene, the Prosecco Hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene, is a 2019 UNESCO World Heritage cultural landscape in Treviso, Veneto, a hogback viticulture area of ciglioni terraces and bellussera vines producing Prosecco Superiore DOCG from Glera grapes.
Le Coq Sportif
Le Coq Sportif: French sports clothing and footwear brand founded 1882 in Romilly-sur-Seine by Émile Camuset; outfitted French Olympic teams 1912-1972 and Paris 2024; placed in judicial restructuring November 2024, taken over by Dan Mamane in 2025.
Le Corbeau
Le Corbeau (The Raven) is Henri-Georges Clouzot's 1943 French thriller about anonymous poison-pen letters in an occupied provincial town, made for German-backed Continental Films, banned after the Liberation, and later recognized as the first classic French film noir.
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier, born Charles-Édouard Jeanneret in Switzerland in 1887, was a Swiss-born French architect and leading figure of twentieth-century modern architecture, known for Villa Savoye and Chandigarh.
Le Cordon Bleu
Le Cordon Bleu, international network of culinary arts and hospitality schools founded in Paris in 1895 by Marthe Distel; about 35 institutes in 20 countries, 20,000 students yearly, known for the Grand Diplôme and alumni like Julia Child.
Le Cornet à dés
Le Cornet à dés is a collection of about 300 prose poems by the French writer and painter Max Jacob, published at his own expense in 1917.
Le Corniaud
Le Corniaud (The Sucker) is a 1965 French-Italian comedy road movie by Gérard Oury starring Bourvil and Louis de Funès; a gangster has a naive merchant drive a Cadillac of contraband from Naples to Bordeaux. It topped the 1965 French box office with 11.7 million admissions.
Le Coup de Foudre (我只喜欢你)
Le Coup de Foudre (我只喜欢你, I Only Like You) is a 2019 Chinese 35-episode youth romance drama on Tencent Video and Youku, adapted from Qiao Yi's real-life memoir I Don't Like This World, I Only Like You, starring Wu Qian and Zhang Yujian as Zhao Qiaoyi and Yan Mo.
Le court
The Le court (Triều đình Lê) was the royal court of the Le kings of Dai Viet, founded by Le Loi at Thang Long in 1428.
Le Crêt-du-Maure
Le Crêt-du-Maure (Crêt du Maure) is a wooded hill in Annecy, Haute-Savoie, the first foothill of the Semnoz, site of the medieval town and château, with a 150 ha reforested communal forest and viewpoints over Lake Annecy.
Le Creuset
Le Creuset is a French cookware manufacturer founded in 1925 in Fresnoy-le-Grand, best known for its enameled cast-iron Dutch ovens and its signature orange Flame color.
Lê Cung Hoàng
Lê Cung Hoàng (黎恭皇; personal name Lê Xuân, 黎椿) was the 11th and last emperor of the Lê sơ dynasty, a puppet ruler placed on the throne in 1522 by the warlord Mạc Đăng Dung.
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe
Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass), 1863 oil painting by Édouard Manet, also titled Le Bain, in the Musée d'Orsay; scandal at the Salon des Refusés, sources in Titian and Raphael, later reworked by Picasso, Monet, and Cézanne.
Le déjeuner sur l'herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires
Le déjeuner sur l'herbe: Les Trois Femmes Noires is a 2010 work by Mickalene Thomas that re-creates Manet's 1863 painting with three confident, fully clothed Black women, commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art.
Le Dîner de Cons
Le Dîner de Cons (The Dinner Game) is a 1998 French comedy by Francis Veber, adapted from his 1993 play, starring Thierry Lhermitte and Jacques Villeret. It sold over 9 million tickets in France, won three Césars in 1999, and inspired remakes including Dinner for Schmucks.
Le Disque vert
Le Disque vert was a Belgian monthly literary review founded in Brussels in 1922 by Franz Hellens with Mélot du Dy, best known for publishing Henri Michaux's earliest writings.
Le Dormeur du val
Le Dormeur du val ("The Sleeper in the Valley") is a famous 1870 sonnet by Arthur Rimbaud about a dead soldier lying in a sunlit valley.