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L.L.Bean
L.L.Bean is a privately held, family-owned American outdoor retailer headquartered in Freeport, Maine. Founded in 1912 by Leon Leonwood Bean, it is known for the Bean Boot.
L.O.R.D: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties (爵迹)
L.O.R.D: Legend of Ravaging Dynasties (爵迹) is Guo Jingming's 2016 full live-action CG fantasy film adapted from his own novel, China's first all-motion-capture CG feature, which earned about 3.8亿 RMB against a near-2亿 budget with a 3.8 Douban score.
L.P. Rhythm
L.P. Rhythm is the stage name of Lewis Pitcairn, a British house DJ and producer from Sunderland, England, known for a revival of 1990s house music.
L.S. Beese
L.S. Beese, or Lorena S. Beese, is a structural biochemist at Duke University who determines the 3D structures of enzymes that replicate and repair DNA.
L'Absinthe
L'Absinthe, officially Dans un café, is an 1875–76 oil painting by Edgar Degas showing two figures in a Paris café, held at the Musée d'Orsay.
L'Adone
L'Adone is a mythological epic poem in twenty cantos by the Neapolitan poet Giovan Battista Marino, published in Paris in 1623 and recognized as the longest poem written in the Italian language.
L'Âge d'Or
L'Âge d'Or (1930) is Luis Buñuel's surrealist feature, co-written with Salvador Dalí and produced by the Noailles. Banned in France after the Studio 28 scandal of December 1930, it was unseen there until 1981; distinct from the 1942 Jean de Limur comedy of the same title.
L'Aile ou la Cuisse
L'Aile ou la Cuisse (The Wing or the Thigh), 1976 French comedy by Claude Zidi starring Louis de Funès and Coluche, their only film together; gastronomic critic Duchemin battles industrial-food magnate Tricatel; about 6 million admissions, second at the 1976 French box office.
L'albatros (poem)
L'Albatros is Charles Baudelaire's 1861 Les Fleurs du mal poem (first published 1859) in which captured albatrosses become an allegory of the poet, four ABAB alexandrine quatrains ending "Le Poète est semblable au prince des nuées".
L'Allegria
Allegria di naufragi is a 1919 poetry collection by the Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti, written during World War I service on the Italian and western fronts.
L'Amour de Ma Vie
L'Amour de Ma Vie (French for "the love of my life") is a two-part Billie Eilish song, track 7 on HIT ME HARD AND SOFT (May 17, 2024, Darkroom/Interscope), written with Finneas; its "Over Now" extended edit earned a 2025 Grammy nomination for Best Dance Pop Recording.
L'amour est bleu
"L'amour est bleu" ("Love Is Blue") is a 1967 song by André Popp and Pierre Cour that Vicky Leandros sang for Luxembourg, finishing fourth at Eurovision 1967.
L'Amour la poésie
L'Amour la poésie is a 1929 collection of poems by the French surrealist poet Paul Éluard, dedicated to his wife Gala and containing the famous line "The earth is blue like an orange."
L'amour toujours
L'amour toujours (I'll Fly with You) is a 1999 dance song by Italian DJ Gigi D'Agostino, title track of his album of the same name; in 2024 it was banned from Oktoberfest after far-right chants were set to its melody in Germany.
L'Année philologique
L'Année philologique (APh Online) is the international reference bibliography of classical studies, indexing more than 1,000 journals on ancient Greece and Rome from 1928 onward.
L'Année terrible
L'Année terrible, "the terrible year," is Victor Hugo's phrase for France's 1870–1871 catastrophe of war, siege of Paris, and the Commune, also the title of his 1872 poetry collection.
L'Anse aux Meadows
L'Anse aux Meadows, on Newfoundland's Great Northern Peninsula, is an 11th-century Norse encampment discovered in 1960 by the Ingstads, the only confirmed Norse site in the Americas, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1978, dated to AD 1021.
L'Après
L'Après (Alliance pour la République écologique et sociale, L'APRÈS) is a French loi-1901 political association founded 12 July 2024 by LFI dissidents including Clémentine Autain and Alexis Corbière; its four deputies sit with the Ecologist and Social group, and Autain withdrew her 2027 primary candidacy in July 2026.
L'Après-midi d'un faune
L'Après-midi d'un faune is an 1876 eclogue in 110 alexandrines by Stéphane Mallarmé, in which a faun cannot tell whether an encounter with two nymphs was real.
l'Aquàrium de Barcelona
L'Aquàrium de Barcelona, opened September 1995 on Port Vell's Moll d'Espanya, is the largest Mediterranean-themed aquarium in the world, with an 80-metre shark tunnel, a 4.5-million-liter Oceanarium, 11,000 specimens, and about 40 million visitors, operated by Aspro Ocio.
L'Aquila
L'Aquila, capital of Abruzzo, Italy: a 13th-century city of 99 castles at 721 m on the Aterno, repeatedly rebuilt after earthquakes, most recently the 2009 quake, with reconstruction now 96% private and 60% public, and Italian Capital of Culture 2026.
L'Arc Macau
L'Arc Macau: hotel, casino and serviced-apartment complex in NAPE, Macau Peninsula, opened 21 September 2009 with 283 five-star rooms; SJM satellite casino taken over directly by SJM on 30 December 2025.
L'Arc-en-Ciel
L'Arc-en-Ciel (L'Arc~en~Ciel, 'the rainbow' in French) is a Japanese rock band formed in Osaka in 1991: hyde, ken, tetsuya, yukihiro; Dune (1993), ark and ray (1999), first Japanese act to headline Madison Square Garden (2012).
L'Art d'être grand-père
L'Art d'être grand-père is a collection of poetry by Victor Hugo, published in Paris in 1877 and dedicated entirely to his grandchildren Georges and Jeanne Hugo.
L'Art poétique
L'Art poétique is a didactic poem in four chants by Nicolas Boileau, published in 1674 and imitated from Horace, setting out the precepts of French classical doctrine and its poetic genres.
L'As des as
L'As des as (The Ace of Aces) is a 1982 French-German comedy-adventure by Gérard Oury starring Jean-Paul Belmondo as a boxing coach at the 1936 Berlin Olympics who saves a Jewish boy from the Gestapo; about 5.4 million French admissions.
L'Assommoir
L'Assommoir is an 1877 novel by Émile Zola, seventh volume of his Rougon-Macquart cycle, tracing laundress Gervaise Macquart's decline in working-class Paris; a founding work of the proletarian novel.
L'Atalante
L'Atalante, also released mutilated as Le Chaland qui passe, is Jean Vigo's 1934 French black-and-white feature about newlyweds on a Seine barge with Michel Simon as Père Jules; his only feature, a poetic realism landmark.
L'Avare
L'Avare (1980) is a French comedy film co-directed by Jean Girault and Louis de Funès, adapting Molière's play, with de Funès as Harpagon; released 5 March 1980, 123 min, Films Christian Fechner.
L'Aventurier
"L'Aventurier" is a 1982 new wave song by the French band Indochine, written by Nicola Sirkis, whose lyrics borrow from the Bob Morane adventure novels.