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Le Minh Hung
Le Minh Hung is a Vietnamese politician serving as Prime Minister of Vietnam since 2026, having previously been Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam.
Le Miracle de Théophile
Le Miracle de Théophile is a 663-line Old French miracle play by Rutebeuf, written around 1263, in which the Virgin Mary rescues Theophilus from his pact with the devil.
Le Monde
Le Monde: French daily newspaper founded by Hubert Beuve-Méry, first issue 18 December 1944, successor to Le Temps. Reader-owned 1951 structure, 600,000+ subscribers, 21 million monthly readers, leading French quality brand for trust.
Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century
Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century is a list of 20th-century books from a 1999 reader poll in the French newspaper Le Monde, drawn from 200 preselected titles.
Le Morne Cultural Landscape
Le Morne Cultural Landscape, a UNESCO World Heritage Site (inscribed 10 July 2008) in southwest Mauritius, centers on Le Morne Brabant mountain, a refuge for maroons, escaped slaves, in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
Le Morte d'Arthur
Le Morte Darthur (Le Morte d'Arthur) is Sir Thomas Malory's Middle English prose retelling of King Arthur, written 1469–70 and printed by Caxton in 1485; the Winchester manuscript found in 1934 is the earliest version.
Le Nain brothers
The Le Nain brothers, Antoine, Louis, and Mathieu, were French painters born in Laon and active in 17th-century Paris, best known for sober, dignified scenes of peasant life.
Le Nghi Dan
Le Nghi Dan (Lê Nghi Dân, 1439–1460) was an emperor of the Early Le dynasty of Dai Viet who seized the throne in 1459 by murder and was deposed in 1460.
Lê Nguyễn Bảo Ngọc
Lê Nguyễn Bảo Ngọc, Vietnamese beauty queen from Cần Thơ: Miss Intercontinental 2022, Miss World Vietnam 2024, Top 6 at Miss World 2026 in Nha Trang, and founder of the climate-focused youth enterprise Gen Zero.
Le Nhan Tong
Le Nhan Tong (Lê Nhân Tông), personal name Le Bang Co, was the third emperor of Vietnam's Later Le dynasty, reigning until his assassination in 1459.
Le occasioni
Le occasioni is the second poetry collection of the Italian poet Eugenio Montale, published in Turin in 1939 and dedicated to Irma Brandeis, the American Dante scholar he loved, appearing as Clizia.
Le Parnasse contemporain
Le Parnasse contemporain is a collective French poetry anthology published by Alphonse Lemerre in 1866, 1871, and 1876, which gave its name to the Parnassian school.
Le Parti pris des choses
Le Parti pris des choses, Francis Ponge's first major book, is a 1942 collection of prose poems on everyday objects like the oyster, bread, and soap.
Le Pèlerinage de vie humaine
Le Pèlerinage de vie humaine, "The Pilgrimage of Human Life," is a French allegorical dream-vision poem of 13,639 verses written by Guillaume de Deguileville in 1330–1331.
Le Père Noël est une ordure
Le Père Noël est une ordure is a French farce by the troupe Le Splendid, first staged in 1979 and best known through its 1982 film.
Le Petit Samedi Soir
Le Petit Samedi Soir was a Haitian independent political and cultural weekly magazine, founded in 1960 by writer Dieudonné Fardin and prominent under the Duvalier dictatorship.
Le Petit Tourette
Le Petit Tourette (South Park season 11, episode 8, also titled Ein bisschen Tourette) is a 2007 Trey Parker episode in which Cartman fakes Tourette syndrome to swear without consequences, until faking erodes his mental filter.
Le Pétomane
Le Pétomane, stage name of Joseph Pujol (Josep Pujol i Mauri, 1857–1945), French Catalan music-hall flatulist who headlined the Moulin Rouge in the early 1890s, out-earning Sarah Bernhardt, using controlled rectal air intake rather than intestinal gas.
Lê Phổ
Lê Phổ (1907–2001) was a Vietnamese-French painter and leading figure of modern Vietnamese art, among the first graduates of the École des Beaux-Arts de l'Indochine in Hanoi.
Le Pinnacle
Le Pinnacle (Le Pinacle, Jèrriais Lé Pinnacl'ye) is a 60 m coastal rock and multi-period archaeological site at Saint Ouen, Jersey, with Early Neolithic axe factory, Chalcolithic and Bronze Age earthworks, and Jersey's only known Gallo-Roman temple.
Le Placard
Le Placard (The Closet) is Francis Veber's 2001 French comedy starring Daniel Auteuil and Gérard Depardieu, in which an accountant facing dismissal fakes being gay to keep his job; it drew 5.29 million French admissions.
Le Plaisir
Le Plaisir (1952) is Max Ophüls's French black-and-white anthology film adapting three Guy de Maupassant stories, Le Masque, La Maison Tellier, and Le Modèle, narrated in Maupassant's voice, with Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, and Simone Simon, famous for its tracking shots and the closing line "Le bonheur n'est pas gai".
Le Plateau-Mont-Royal
Le Plateau-Mont-Royal, a borough of Montreal, Quebec, on the plateau east of Mount Royal; 8.1 km², about 100,390 residents, density 12,348/km²; known for spiral staircases, Mile End, bagels, and Québécois culture.
Le Pont Mirabeau
Le Pont Mirabeau is a poem by the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire, first published in 1912 and collected in Alcools in 1913, meditating on lost love and time.
Le Pouzin
Le Pouzin, Ardèche commune on the right bank of the Rhône at the Ouvèze confluence, known for its 2nd-century Roman bridge, the Cluniac priory of Rompon, and the 1960-1961 CNR road bridge over the Rhône.
Le Quai des brumes
Le Quai des brumes (Port of Shadows) is Marcel Carné's 1938 French poetic-realist drama, scripted by Jacques Prévert from Pierre Mac Orlan's novel, starring Jean Gabin, Michèle Morgan, Michel Simon, and Pierre Brasseur, censored yet hugely successful, restored in 4K in 2025.
Le Quy Don
Le Quy Don (Lê Quý Đôn, 1726 to 1784) was a Vietnamese Confucian scholar and statesman of the Later Le dynasty who wrote about forty works on history and geography.
Le Remède de Fortune
Le Remède de Fortune, also spelled Remede de Fortune, is a narrative poem with interpolated songs, a dit, written in French by Guillaume de Machaut around 1340.
Le Ren
Le Ren is the folk project of Canadian singer-songwriter Lauren Spear of Bowen Island, British Columbia, based in Montreal; signed to Secretly Canadian after touring with Orville Peck, known for the EP Morning & Melancholia (2020), the album Leftovers (2021), and Don't Be Funny Without Me (2026).
Le Reservoir (music)
Le Réservoir is a dinner-concert club and concert hall in Paris's 11th arrondissement, opened in 1995 in a former forge, mixing cabaret dining with eclectic music.