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Les Chaussettes Noires
Les Chaussettes Noires were a French rock and roll group formed around 1960, led by singer Eddy Mitchell, best known for the 1961 hit "Daniela" and active until 1964.
Les Chimères
Les Chimères is a group of twelve sonnets by the French writer Gérard de Nerval, composed between 1841 and 1853 and first published in January 1854.
Les Claypool
Les Claypool (born 1963, Richmond, California) is the American bassist, vocalist, and founder of Primus, creator of the South Park theme, and leader of side projects including Oysterhead, Frog Brigade, and the Claypool Lennon Delirium with Sean Ono Lennon.
Les Complaintes
Les Complaintes is an 1885 collection of 51 poems by Jules Laforgue, his first published collection, which revived the old complainte song genre through irony and liberated verse.
Les Contemplations
Les Contemplations is an 1856 poetry collection by Victor Hugo, published during his exile in about eleven thousand verses and organized around the death of his daughter Léopoldine in 1843.
Les Convents
Les Convents is the site of Gallo-Roman villa remains on a plateau overlooking the Durance, near Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, Bouches-du-Rhône, France; recorded in the Pleiades gazetteer as a villa occupied roughly 30 BC to AD 300.
Les Cousins
Les Cousins (The Cousins) is Claude Chabrol's 1959 French New Wave drama, Golden Bear winner at Berlin, in which provincial law student Charles (Gérard Blain) loses Florence (Juliette Mayniel) to his cousin Paul (Jean-Claude Brialy) and dies by Paul's hand.
Les Cowboys Fringants
Les Cowboys Fringants are a Quebec folk-rock band formed in the mid-1990s in Repentigny, led by singer Karl Tremblay and guitarist Jean-François Pauzé, selling over 1,500,000 albums.
Les Crane
Les Crane (Lesley Stein, 1933-2008), American radio and TV host whose ABC Les Crane Show (1964-65) challenged Johnny Carson, won a 1971 Grammy for "Desiderata," then founded Software Toolworks (Chessmaster, Mavis Beacon).
Les Crânières
Les Crânières, Gallo-Roman sanctuary and vicus at Faye-l'Abbesse (Deux-Sèvres, France), excavated from 1851; circular fanum 15 m across, Celtic sanctuary with mutilated weapons, once identified with Segora.
Les Dawson
Les Dawson (Leslie Dawson) was an English comedian and pianist known for deadpan monologues, mother-in-law jokes, the drag characters Cissie and Ada, and deliberately bad piano playing.
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon: Pablo Picasso's 1907 oil painting of five women in a brothel, 243.9 x 233.7 cm, in MoMA New York since 1939; proto-Cubist work first exhibited at the 1916 Salon d'Antin.
Les Dennis
Les Dennis (Leslie Dennis Heseltine, born 1953, Liverpool) is an English comedian, presenter and actor, host of ITV's Family Fortunes 1987–2002, formerly half of a double act with Dustin Gee, later a stage and screen actor and Strictly 2023 contestant.
Les Destinées
Les Destinées is an 1864 posthumous collection of eleven philosophical poems by the French poet Alfred de Vigny, containing his best-known poems La Mort du loup and La Maison du berger.
Les Deux Magots
Les Deux Magots is a historic literary café-restaurant at 6 place Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris, named for two Chinese statues from its predecessor novelty shop. Founded 1884, owned by the Boulay-Mathivat family since 1914, home of the Prix des Deux Magots (1933, first winner Raymond Queneau) and haunt of Sartre, Beauvoir, and Hemingway.
Les Diaboliques (film)
Les Diaboliques, released in English as Diabolique, is a 1955 French suspense film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, adapted from Boileau-Narcejac's 1952 novel, whose twist ending influenced Hitchcock's Psycho.
Les Échecs amoureux
Les Échecs amoureux (Les Eschés amoureux, "The Amorous Chess Game") is a long Old French allegorical poem of about 30,000 verses, written around 1370 to 1380.
Les Faits des Romains
Les Faits des Romains (Old French Li Fet des Romains) is an anonymous Old French prose compilation, composed around 1213–1214, telling Roman history through the life of Julius Caesar.
Les Ferdinand
Les Ferdinand (born 1966), known as Sir Les, English centre-forward for QPR, Newcastle, and Tottenham; 149 Premier League goals in 351 games, PFA Player of the Year 1995-96, 17 England caps, later QPR director of football.
Les Fleur
Les Fleur, also written Les Fleurs, is the 1970 opening track of Minnie Riperton's debut album Come to My Garden, written by Charles Stepney and Richard Rudolph, first recorded by Ramsey Lewis, and later famous via Us, Back to Black, and The Idea of You.
Les Fleurs du mal
Les Fleurs du mal, also known as the poetry collection French for "The Flowers of Evil," is by Charles Baudelaire, first published in 1857 and condemned for moral outrage.
Les Fouilletières
Les Fouilletières is an ancient location in Roman Gaul documented in the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. It appears on Maps 14 and 18.
Les Francofolies de Spa
Les Francofolies de Spa is an annual festival of French-language music held each July in Spa, Belgium, founded in 1994 and among the country's largest music events.
Les Fugitifs
Les Fugitifs is a 1986 French comedy directed by Francis Veber, starring Gérard Depardieu as a reformed bank robber taken hostage by Pierre Richard's clumsy robber.
Les Girls
Les Girls (Cole Porter's Les Girls) is George Cukor's 1957 MGM musical comedy, 114 minutes, starring Gene Kelly, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall, and Taina Elg in a Rashomon-style libel-suit plot; it won the Oscar for Orry-Kelly's costumes.
Les Gold
Les Gold is an American pawnbroker who owns American Jewelry and Loan in Detroit and starred in the truTV reality series Hardcore Pawn from 2009 to 2015.
Les Griots
Les Griots was a Haitian quarterly review published in Port-au-Prince from 1938 to 1940 by François Duvalier and Lorimer Denis, a formative vehicle of the noiriste movement.
Les Gueltates d'Issakarassene
Les Gueltates d'Issakarassene, Ramsar site no. 1058, is a 35,100 ha permanent guelta wetland at ~2,000 m in Algeria's Ahaggar mountains, designated 2 February 2001, home to desert-endemic Barbus fish and vulnerable gazelle and cheetah.
Les Halles
Les Halles, Paris's central food market from the medieval Champeaux to the Baltard iron-and-glass pavilions (1854-1870s), transferred to Rungis in 1969, demolished 1971, replaced by the Forum des Halles and Canopée.
Les Hurtières
Les Hurtières: historic copper and iron mining district at Saint-Georges-d'Hurtières, Maurienne, Savoie, France. Worked from the 13th century to 1930; over 1.5 million tonnes of siderite extracted; now the Grand Filon iron museum.