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Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Quebec
Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine (Magdalen Islands) is a Quebec archipelago in the Gulf of St. Lawrence with 12,941 inhabitants (2022), an economy based on fishing, salt mining, and tourism, and severe coastal erosion exposure.
Les Indes galantes
Les Indes galantes, RCT 44, is Rameau's 1735 opéra-ballet on a libretto by Louis Fuzelier, a prologue plus four entrées set in Turkey, Peru, Persia, and North America; famous for the Les Sauvages entrée and Clément Cogitore's 2019 hip-hop staging at the Paris Opera.
Les Invalides
Les Invalides, formally the Hôtel national des Invalides, is a Paris complex founded by Louis XIV in 1670 for wounded soldiers, now holding Napoleon's tomb and the Army Museum.
Les Kurbas
Les Kurbas (Лесь Курбас), born Oleksander-Zenon Kurbas, was a Ukrainian theater director who founded Berezil and the modern Ukrainian theater, executed in the Stalinist purges in 1937.
Les Laing
Les Laing (Leslie Alphonso Laing, 1925-2021), Jamaican sprinter; Olympic gold in 4x400 m relay at Helsinki 1952 in world record 3:03.9; also 1948 Olympian and CAC Games medalist.
Les Lane
Les Lane (Lester Everett Lane, 1932-1973), American basketball player, 1960 Olympic gold medalist with the USA, later coach of Mexico's fifth-place 1968 Olympic team; distinct from swimmer Fred Lane.
Les Lavandières
Les Lavandières: the washerwomen of French folklore, especially the Breton kannerez noz, spectral night laundresses linked to death omen and expiation, attested from Cambry and Sébillot; also a title of paintings by Boucher, Fragonard, and Hubert Robert.
Les Lettres françaises
Les Lettres françaises is a French literary and political newspaper founded in the Resistance by Jacques Decour and Jean Paulhan, published clandestinely from September 1942.
Les Liaisons dangereuses
Les Liaisons dangereuses, 1782 epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, told in 175 letters between libertines Valmont and Merteuil; scandalous 1782 success, censored 1823, adapted by Vadim, Frears, and Forman.
Les Loups Noirs
Les Loups Noirs were a Haitian konpa band from Port-au-Prince, founded in 1969 and led by singer Gardner Lalanne, blending compas with jazz and rock-and-roll.
Les Maîtres du temps
Les Maîtres du temps (Time Masters) is a 1982 French animated science fiction film by René Laloux, designed by Moebius, adapted from Stefan Wul's L'Orphelin de Perdide, animated in Budapest.
Les Martys
Les Martys, Aude commune in the Montagne Noire, France, home to the Domaine des Forges, a major Roman iron-smelting center (about 50 BC to 270 AD) with a 2-3 million tonne slag heap, excavated from 1972 by Claude Domergue.
Les McKeown
Les McKeown (Leslie Richard McKeown, 1955-2021) was the Scottish lead singer of the Bay City Rollers from 1973 to 1978, fronting hits like Bye Bye Baby and Shang-a-Lang during Rollermania, then touring with Les McKeown's Legendary Bay City Rollers.
Les Miles
Les Miles, nicknamed "The Mad Hatter," is an American college football coach who led LSU to a 2007 BCS National Championship and later coached at Oklahoma State and Kansas.
Les Mills
Les Mills: New Zealand group fitness brand founded by four-time Olympian Les Mills Snr in Auckland in 1968; Les Mills International licenses BODYPUMP, BODYCOMBAT, and 30+ programs to 22,000+ clubs with 130,000 instructors, plus the LES MILLS+ app.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables, Victor Hugo's 1862 French novel, written in Guernsey exile over 1845–1861: Jean Valjean's redemption through 1832 Paris, a 300,000-franc bestseller placed on the Index and endlessly adapted.
Les Misérables (1998 film)
Les Misérables (1998) is Bille August's non-musical film adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel, starring Liam Neeson as Valjean, Geoffrey Rush as Javert, Uma Thurman, and Claire Danes; produced by Mandalay Entertainment, released May 1, 1998.
Les Misérables (2012 film)
Les Misérables (2012) is Tom Hooper's film adaptation of the Schönberg-Boublil stage musical and Hugo's novel, starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, and Anne Hathaway, with live on-set singing; it won three Oscars, three Golden Globes, and four BAFTAs.
Les Misérables (2019 film)
Les Misérables (2019) is Ladj Ly's debut French drama about BAC police in Montfermeil, Seine-Saint-Denis; it shared Cannes' 2019 Jury Prize, won 4 Césars including Best Film, and was Oscar-nominated for Best International Feature Film.
Les Misérables (2026 film)
Les Misérables (2026 film), also called Les Misérables Partie 1: a French non-musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1862 novel directed by Fred Cavayé, starring Vincent Lindon as Jean Valjean and Tahar Rahim as Javert, released 14 October 2026 by StudioCanal.
Les Misérables (musical)
Les Misérables, also known as Les Mis, is a sung-through musical based on Victor Hugo's 1862 novel, with music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, first staged in Paris in 1980.
Les Misérables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary
Les Misérables in Concert: The 25th Anniversary is the 2010 O2 Arena gala concert film marking 25 years of the 1985 London musical, starring Alfie Boe, Norm Lewis, Lea Salonga, and Nick Jonas with over 500 performers, released on DVD and Blu-ray in 2011.
Les Misérables: The Dream Cast in Concert
Les Misérables: The Dream Cast in Concert, also known as the Tenth Anniversary Concert, is a 1995 filmed gala performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Les Moonves
Les Moonves (Leslie Roy Moonves, born 1949) is an American media executive who led CBS to ratings dominance from 1995 until his 2018 resignation.
Les Murray
Les Murray, born Leslie Allan Murray (1938–2019), was an Australian poet known for poetry rooted in rural Bunyah, New South Wales, and often called Australia's unofficial national poet.
Les Musclés
Les Musclés were a French five-member variety band, formed in 1987 as the house orchestra of TF1's Club Dorothée, selling 4 million records before disbanding in 1997.
Les Nabis
Les Nabis were a group of young Post-Impressionist artists, about a dozen, formed in Paris around 1888; members included Pierre Bonnard, Édouard Vuillard, and Maurice Denis.
Les Nuits
Les Nuits is a cycle of four poems by Alfred de Musset, written between 1835 and 1837 and inspired by his rupture with George Sand.
Les nuits d'été discography
Discography of Berlioz's Les nuits d'été (Summer Nights), Op. 7, six Gautier songs; landmark recordings include Crespin/Ansermet 1963, Baker/Barbirolli, Gens/Langrée, and Hunt Lieberson/McGegan.
Les Nuits de Fourvière
Les Nuits de Fourvière is an annual multidisciplinary performing-arts festival held each summer in Lyon, France, mainly at the Roman theaters on the Fourvière hill, dating to 1946.