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Le Rêve (Picasso)
Le Rêve (The Dream) is Picasso's 1932 oil on canvas, 130 × 97 cm, portraying Marie-Thérèse Walter asleep; painted 24 January 1932, sold 1997 for $48.4M and 2013 for $155M, distinct from Picasso's 1935 Le Rêve.
Le Roman de la Rose de Guillaume de Lorris
Le Roman de la Rose de Guillaume de Lorris is the first part of the Old French allegorical dream-vision poem Roman de la Rose, written around 1230.
Le Roman de Renart
Le Roman de Renart is a cycle of Old French comic animal poems about the trickster fox Renart, written by mostly anonymous authors from about 1170 to 1250.
Le Roman de Thèbes
Le Roman de Thèbes is an anonymous Old French verse romance of about 1150 adapting Statius's Thebaid, telling the war of Oedipus's sons for Thebes.
Le Roman de Tristan
Le Roman de Tristan, also cited as Tristran, is a fragmentary Old French poem of about 4,485 verses by the Norman poet Béroul, retelling the love of Tristan and Iseut.
Le Roman de Troie
The Roman de Troie, meaning Romance of Troy, is an Old French poem of over 30,000 lines by Benoît de Sainte-Maure, composed around 1165 and retelling the Trojan War.
Le Roman inachevé
Le Roman inachevé is an autobiographical long poem by the French writer Louis Aragon, published by Gallimard in 1956 and marking his return to lyric poetry.
Le Ronssoy
Le Ronssoy is a rural commune in the Somme department, Hauts-de-France, France (INSEE 80679), near the Hindenburg Line; 577 inhabitants (2023), 751 ha, taken by British III Corps on 18 September 1918.
Le Sage's theory of gravitation
Le Sage's theory of gravitation, also known as push gravity, is a mechanical explanation of gravity, proposed by Georges-Louis Le Sage of Geneva in the 18th century.
Le Samouraï
Le Samouraï (1967) is a French-Italian film noir by Jean-Pierre Melville starring Alain Delon as hitman Jef Costello; released 25 October 1967, it shaped the modern solitary-hitman film and influenced Woo, Jarmusch, and Tarantino.
Le Spleen de Paris
Paris Spleen (Le Spleen de Paris, also published as Petits Poèmes en prose) is a 1869 collection of fifty prose poems by Charles Baudelaire, a founding text of literary modernism.
Le Sserafim (ル・セラフィム)
Le Sserafim (르세라핌) is a five-member K-pop girl group under Source Music, a HYBE label, debuted May 2, 2022 with Fearless; name is an anagram of "I'm Fearless"; Billboard 200 entries include Antifragile, Unforgiven, and PUREFLOW pt.1.
Le Thai Tong
Le Thai Tong (Lê Thái Tông), personal name Le Nguyen Long, was the second emperor of the Le dynasty of Vietnam, reigning from 1433 to 1442.
Le Thanh Tong
Le Thanh Tong (Lê Thánh Tông) was emperor of Vietnam's Later Le dynasty from 1460 to 1497, known for administrative reform and conquering Champa in 1471.
Le Tien Chau
Le Tien Chau is a Vietnamese Communist Party politician serving as Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam since 2026, having previously been Secretary of the Hai Phong City Party Committee.
Le Tigre
Le Tigre is an American feminist electronic punk band formed in New York by Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna with Johanna Fateman and Sadie Benning, later JD Samson; three albums including Deceptacon, hiatus in 2005, reunion from 2022.
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Le Tombeau de Couperin is a six-movement piano suite by Maurice Ravel, composed 1914 to 1917 and dedicated to friends killed in the First World War.
Le Transbordeur
Le Transbordeur is a concert venue in Villeurbanne, near Lyon, France, opened in 1989 in a converted water-treatment plant and holding up to 1,800 people.
Le Trou
Le Trou (The Hole) is Jacques Becker's 1960 French-Italian prison-escape film, adapted from José Giovanni's novel about a real 1947 La Santé escape, with escapee Jean Keraudy among the nonprofessional cast; Becker's last film, later hailed by Melville.
Le Tuong Duc
Le Tuong Duc (Lê Tương Dực), personal name Le Oanh, was the ninth emperor of the Early Le dynasty of Vietnam, reigning from 1509 to 1516.
Le Uy Muc
Le Uy Muc (Lê Uy Mục) was the eighth emperor of Vietnam's later Le dynasty, reigning from 1505 to 1509; contemporaries called him the "Demon king."
Le Van Duyet
Le Van Duyet (Lê Văn Duyệt) was a Vietnamese general and statesman who served as governor-general of Gia Dinh under the Nguyen dynasty emperors Gia Long and Minh Mang.
Le Van Huu
Le Van Huu (Lê Văn Hưu, 1230–1322) was a Tran dynasty official and historian who compiled the Đại Việt sử ký, Vietnam's first national history, completed in 1272.
Le Van Khoi
Le Van Khoi (Lê Văn Khôi) was a Vietnamese military officer, adopted son of Le Van Duyet, who led a revolt against Emperor Minh Mang from 1833.
Lê Văn Khôi revolt
The Lê Văn Khôi revolt (Loạn Lê Văn Khôi) was a 1833–1835 rebellion against Emperor Minh Mạng, led from the Gia Định citadel at Saigon.
Le Verrier (Martian crater)
Le Verrier is a 140-km-diameter impact crater on Mars at 37.67°S, 17.10°E, named for astronomer Urbain Le Verrier, IAU-approved 1973; a smaller 20.52 km Martian crater and a lunar crater share the name, and a triple crater lies east of it.
Le Vignacce
Le Vignacce (Villa delle Vignacce), a large Roman suburban villa in Rome's Parco degli Acquedotti at the fourth mile of the Via Latina, built AD 125-130 for brick manufacturer Quintus Servilius Pudens, with a domed bath hall lightened by amphorae and sculptures now in the Vatican Museums and Centrale Montemartini.
Le Village des Tortues
Le Village des Tortues (Tortupôle France) is a French tortoise conservation center founded by SOPTOM, opened at Gonfaron in 1988 and moved to Carnoules in 2016-2017, holding over 1,800 tortoises of about 50 species.
Le Voyage
"Le Voyage" is the final poem of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du mal, the longest in the collection, added in the 1861 edition and dedicated to Maxime Du Camp.
Le Week-End
Le Week-End (2013) is a British comedy-drama by Roger Michell and Hanif Kureishi, their fourth collaboration, starring Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan, and Jeff Goldblum as a couple revisiting Paris.