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Le Doulos
Le Doulos, 1962 French-Italian film noir by Jean-Pierre Melville from Pierre Lesou's 1957 novel, starring Belmondo as suspected informer Silien and Reggiani as Faugel; released in France 8 February 1963.
Lê Duẩn
Lê Duẩn (Le Duan, 1908–1986), Vietnamese communist leader, First Secretary/Secretary General of the Vietnam Workers'/Communist Party from the late 1950s to 1986; hawkish architect of reunification strategy, the 1968 Tet Offensive, and the 1975 victory.
Lê Đức Thọ
Lê Đức Thọ (Phan Dinh Khai, 1911–1990), Vietnamese communist leader and North Vietnam's chief Paris negotiator with Henry Kissinger; co-winner of the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize, which he declined, the only person ever to refuse the Peace Prize.
Le Duy Mat
Le Duy Mat (Lê Duy Mật) was a Vietnamese prince of the Later Le dynasty who led a rising against the Trinh lords from 1738 to 1770.
Le fantastique
Le fantastique is a principally French literary genre in which seemingly supernatural events intrude into an ordinary world, sustaining uncertainty between natural and supernatural explanations.
Le Faux Soir
Le Faux Soir: a fake edition of the collaborationist Brussels daily Le Soir, produced by the Belgian resistance Front de l'Indépendance and distributed at kiosks on 9 November 1943; 50,000 satirical copies ridiculing the Nazi occupier.
Le Figaro
Le Figaro, French conservative daily newspaper founded 15 January 1826 in Paris, daily since 1866, owned by the Dassault group; circulation 397,194 (2025-2026), second national daily after Le Monde.
Le Figaro littéraire
Le Figaro littéraire is the literary supplement of the French daily Le Figaro, launched in Paris in 1947 under Pierre Brisson and still published each Thursday.
Le Fort fracture of skull
Le Fort fracture of skull: bilateral midface fracture separating facial skeleton from cranial base; types I (horizontal), II (pyramidal), III (craniofacial dissociation); pterygoid plate fracture unifies all; from René Le Fort's 1901 cadaver experiments.
Le Fort Osteotomy
Le Fort osteotomy: surgical cuts of the maxilla along René Le Fort's 1901 fracture lines (Le Fort I, II, III). Le Fort I repositions the tooth-bearing maxilla for malocclusion, sleep apnea, and midface deficiency; complications about 6.4%.
Le Freak
Le Freak, by Chic (1978, Atlantic), written by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards after being refused entry to Studio 54; six weeks at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, UK number 7, Atlantic's biggest-selling single.
Le Freney
Le Freney is an ancient gold mine recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer (place 167774), cited from Barrington Atlas 17 G3, located at 45.0442 N, 6.124785 E in the French Alps, with dated activity 30 BC to AD 640.
Le Gavroche
Le Gavroche was a Mayfair French haute cuisine restaurant founded by Albert and Michel Roux in 1967, the first UK restaurant to win three Michelin stars (1982), demoted to two in 1993, closed January 2024.
Le Gendarme à New York
Le Gendarme à New York (The Gendarme in New York), 1965 French-Italian comedy by Jean Girault, second Gendarme film: Louis de Funès's Cruchot takes the Saint-Tropez brigade to a New York police congress while daughter Nicole stows away; 5.5 million admissions.
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez (The Gendarme of Saint-Tropez) is a 1964 French-Italian comedy by Jean Girault, starring Louis de Funès as gendarme Ludovic Cruchot. France's biggest 1964 hit and first of a six-film series (1964-1982), it launched de Funès as a star.
Le Gendarme en balade
Le Gendarme en balade (The Gendarme on Parade) is a 1970 French comedy by Jean Girault, fourth Gendarme film with Louis de Funès as Cruchot; retired brigade re-forms for amnesiac Fougasse, 4.9 million admissions.
Le Gendarme et les Gendarmettes
Le Gendarme et les Gendarmettes (1982), Jean Girault and Tony Aboyantz's French comedy, is the sixth and final Gendarme film and Louis de Funès's last screen role, about four female trainees at the Saint-Tropez brigade who are kidnapped.
Le Gendarme se marie
Le Gendarme se marie is a 1968 French comedy directed by Jean Girault, the third film in the Gendarme series, starring Louis de Funès as gendarme Ludovic Cruchot.
Le génie du mal
Le génie du mal (The Genius of Evil) is an 1848 white Carrara marble Lucifer by Guillaume Geefs at Saint Paul's Cathedral, Liège, replacing his brother Joseph's removed 1842 L'ange du mal; distinct from a Gustave Moreau painting and a 1959 film.
Le Gentil (lunar crater)
Le Gentil is a 125.38-km-wide, ancient Pre-Nectarian impact crater on the Moon's southwest near side at 74.27°S, 76.02°W, near Bailly; IAU-approved 1935 for French astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil (1725–1792).
Le Grand Casino
Le Grand Casino is the shared name of several casinos: the 24/7 Le Grand Casino in Skopje, North Macedonia (opened 1994, Holiday Inn, K.A.K. DOO), plus Partouche's Djerba casino, La Mamounia Marrakech, Brussels Viage, Bern, Nouméa, and historic French Grand Casinos.
Le Grand Continent
Le Grand Continent is a French online geopolitics and European affairs journal created in 2019 by the Groupe d'études géopolitiques at the École normale supérieure, led by Gilles Gressani, publishing in six European languages.
Le Grand Meaulnes
Le Grand Meaulnes is a 1913 French novel by Alain-Fournier in which narrator François Seurel recounts his friend Augustin Meaulnes' search for a mysterious festive domain.
Le Grand Restaurant
Le Grand Restaurant (1966) is a French comedy by Jacques Besnard starring Louis de Funès as restaurateur Monsieur Septime, suspected when a South American head of state vanishes; 3.9 million French admissions, Gaumont, visa 31211.
Le Grand Testament
Le Grand Testament, or Le Testament, is a 2,023-verse narrative poem by François Villon dated 1461, a parody will whose burlesque bequests embed his lyric poems and mark his masterpiece.
Le Grand Verger
Le Grand Verger, Gallo-Roman villa and oil-press site at Lambesc, Bouches-du-Rhône, France, occupied 1st century BC to 10th century AD; also the name of unrelated French places and firms.
Le Griffon
Le Griffon is a Gallo-Roman villa site at Vitrolles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France (Barrington Atlas 15 E3), known for a rare domestic heating system described by Pliny and for destruction by fire.
Le Havre
Le Havre, Normandy port city founded by François I in 1517; its WWII-destroyed center was rebuilt 1945–1964 under Auguste Perret in reinforced concrete and inscribed by UNESCO in 2005.
Le Havre AC
Le Havre AC (Havre Athletic Club, HAC) is a French football club founded in 1872, the oldest in France. Six-time second-division champion, Ligue 1 member, home at the Stade CMA CGM Océane, famed for its La Cavée Verte academy that produced Pogba and Mahrez.
Le Havre FSRU
The Le Havre FSRU was France's first floating LNG import terminal, a moored ship injecting gas into the French grid from late 2023 to January 2026.