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Les Nuits Secrètes
Les Nuits Secrètes is a three-day music festival held each July in Aulnoye-Aymeries, northern France, since 2002, best known for its Parcours Secrets trips to secret venues with unannounced artists.
Les Orientales
Les Orientales is a collection of 41 poems by Victor Hugo, published in January 1829, evoking an imagined Mediterranean Orient and marking a breakthrough in his poetic innovation.
Les Paul
Les Paul (Lester William Polsfuss, 1915-2009), American jazz guitarist and inventor; namesake of the Gibson Les Paul solid-body electric guitar and pioneer of multitrack recording, overdubbing, and delay effects.
Les Paul and Mary Ford
Les Paul and Mary Ford: American husband-and-wife duo (also Les Paul & Mary Ford) of the early 1950s, known for overdubbed hits like "How High the Moon" and "Vaya Con Dios" and for pioneering multitrack recording.
Les Pendus
Les Pendus is a traditional French alignment board game in which two players place three pieces each on a 3x3 grid, then move them to form a row.
Les Petites Varennes, Pouzay
Les Petites Varennes, Pouzay (also Grandes Varennes): Gallo-Roman site on the Vienne in Indre-et-Loire, France, part of a 500 m complex with a fanum straddling Pouzay and Trogues, debated as large villae or a secondary agglomeration.
Les poilus
Les poilus (The Grizzled) is a 2015 cooperative card game by Fabien Riffaud, Juan Rodriguez and illustrator Tignous, in which 2-5 French WWI soldiers survive trench hardships together through limited communication and mutual support.
Les Poppys
Les Poppys were a French children's pop group of seventeen boys from the Asnières choir, whose 1971 pacifist single "Non, non, rien n'a changé" reached number 1.
Les Près-Bas Roman Villa
Les Près-Bas (Loupian, Hérault) is a Gallo-Roman villa occupied from the mid-1st century BC to the 6th century AD, a wine-producing estate with over 90 dolia and Late Antique polychrome mosaics, now a site museum.
Les Prophéties
Les Prophéties: Nostradamus's (Michel de Nostredame) 942-quatrain prophecy collection in ten Centuries, first printed Lyon 1555, complete 1568; obscure mixed-language verses, contested editions, and a history of retroactive interpretation.
Les Quatre Fils Aymon
Les Quatre Fils Aymon, also known as Renaut de Montauban, is an Old French chanson de geste about Renaud and his brothers, persecuted by Charlemagne.
Les Rayons et les Ombres
Les Rayons et les Ombres ("Beams and Shadows") is a lyric poetry collection by Victor Hugo, published in Paris in 1840 and containing some of his best-known poems.
Les Regrets
Les Regrets is a 1558 collection of 191 sonnets by the French Renaissance poet Joachim Du Bellay, expressing homesickness for Anjou and disillusionment with Rome.
Les Rita Mitsouko
Les Rita Mitsouko, also known as Rita Mitsouko, is a French pop-rock duo formed in Paris by Catherine Ringer and Fred Chichin, whose 1985 hit "Marcia Baïla" made them stars.
Les Rivières de Mbaéré-Bodingué
Les Rivières de Mbaéré-Bodingué, Ramsar site no. 1590 (101,300 ha, designated 2005) in southwestern Central African Republic; wetlands of the Mbaéré and Bodingué rivers adjoining the 86,690-ha Mbaéré-Bodingué National Park, home to gorillas, chimpanzees, and the endemic Cercopithecus cephus ngottoensis.
Les Rubricaire (St-Gemmes-le-Robert)
Les Rubricaire (Rubricaire) is a Gallo-Roman fortified camp and bathhouse at Sainte-Gemmes-le-Robert, Mayenne, France, 11 km from Jublains; excavated by the abbé Angot in 1903 and classified a Monument Historique in 1917.
Les Stroud
Les Stroud, aka Survivorman, is a Canadian filmmaker, musician, and author who created the Survival TV genre with Survivorman (2004), filming his solo wilderness survivals himself across 25-plus locations.
Les Sylphides
Les Sylphides (Chopiniana): one-act plotless ballet by Michel Fokine to Chopin piano music, premiered as Chopiniana in 1907 and renamed by Diaghilev for the 2 June 1909 Ballets Russes Paris debut with Pavlova, Karsavina, and Nijinsky; the first abstract classical ballet.
Les Temps modernes
Les Temps modernes, also known as Temps Modernes, was a French review founded by Jean-Paul Sartre in 1945, a central venue of French intellectual life until 2018.
Les Têtes Raides
Les Têtes Raides are a French band playing poetic, comic chanson, formed in 1984 by singer Christian Olivier, known for "Ginette" and the 1998 gold album Chamboultou.
Les Tragiques
Les Tragiques is an epic poem in seven books by the French Protestant writer and soldier Agrippa d'Aubigné, first published anonymously in 1616 after roughly forty years of composition.
Les Trois Vallées
Les Trois Vallées, also known as Les 3 Vallées, is a lift-linked ski area in Savoie, France, described as the world's largest connected ski area.
Les Twins
Les Twins are French identical twin dancers Laurent and Larry Bourgeois (born 1988, Sarcelles), New Style hip-hop freestyle specialists, Criminalz Crew founders, 2011 Juste Debout champions, and longtime Beyoncé collaborators.
Les Vampires
Les Vampires: 1915–1916 French silent crime serial in ten episodes by Louis Feuillade for Gaumont, starring Musidora as Irma Vep (anagram of vampire), a jewel-thief gang, not supernatural; praised by the Surrealists.
Les Vaux de la Celle
Les Vaux de la Celle (Genainville, Val-d'Oise) is a Gallo-Roman sanctuary and theatre complex in a Vexin dell, with a double-cellae temple to Mercury and Rosmerta, an Iron Age necropolis, and excavations ongoing since 1935.
Les Vengeances de Maître Poutifard
Les Vengeances de Maître Poutifard is a 2023 French-Belgian family comedy by Pierre-François Martin-Laval, adapted from Jean-Claude Mourlevat's 2004 novel, starring Christian Clavier and Isabelle Nanty; released 28 June 2023, 516,327 French admissions.
Les Visiteurs
Les Visiteurs (The Visitors) is a 1993 French time-travel comedy by Jean-Marie Poiré starring Christian Clavier, Jean Reno, and César winner Valérie Lemercier; 13.7 million admissions, sequel, and 2001 remake Just Visiting.
Les Visiteurs 2: The Corridors of Time
Les Visiteurs 2: The Corridors of Time (Les Visiteurs II: Les couloirs du temps) is a 1998 French time-travel comedy by Jean-Marie Poiré, sequel to Les Visiteurs, starring Jean Reno and Christian Clavier; 8 million French admissions, 140-million-franc budget, Muriel Robin replacing Valérie Lemercier.
Les Visiteurs du Soir
Les Visiteurs du soir (The Devil's Envoys) is a 1942 Marcel Carné film written by Jacques Prévert and Pierre Laroche, a medieval fantasy of the Devil's minstrels defeated by love, made during the Nazi occupation and read as its allegory.
Les Voix intérieures
Les Voix intérieures is a collection of 32 poems by Victor Hugo, published in Paris by Eugène Renduel in 1837, the fourth of his great lyric collections.