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L'Avventura
L'avventura (The Adventure), 1960 Italy-France film by Michelangelo Antonioni starring Monica Vitti, Gabriele Ferzetti, and Lea Massari; Anna vanishes on an Aeolian cruise and is never found; booed at Cannes 1960 yet jury-prized, a landmark of modernist cinema.
L’Ecluse
L’Ecluse names Fort l’Écluse, a French frontier fortress at Léaz (Ain) guarding the Rhône defile, from a 1277 castrum to 1940 resistance; also Les Cluses Roman clausurae, canal locks, and Carolus Clusius.
L'elisir d'amore
L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love), Donizetti's two-act melodramma giocoso on Felice Romani's libretto after Scribe's Le philtre, premiered Milan 12 May 1832; Nemorino's fake love potion and "Una furtiva lagrima".
L'Encéphale
L'Encéphale is a French-language bimonthly psychiatry journal founded in Paris in 1906 by Antheaume and Klippel, published by Elsevier Masson, ISSN 0013-7006, indexed in MEDLINE since 1964.
L'Enfant
L'Enfant (The Child) is a 2005 Belgian-French drama by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, starring Jérémie Renier and Déborah François, about a petty thief who sells his newborn son; it won the 2005 Cannes Palme d'Or, their second after Rosetta.
L'Enfant Plaza station
L'Enfant Plaza station: two-level Washington Metro transfer station under 7th and D Streets SW, opened 1977, serving Blue, Orange, Silver, Yellow, and Green Lines, third-busiest with 15,080 weekday riders in May 2025.
L'Entrecôte
L'Entrecôte: French family restaurant group born from Paul Gineste de Saurs' 1959 Le Relais de Venise formula; single menu of walnut salad, 170 g steak, secret 25-ingredient sauce, unlimited fries; branches in Toulouse, Bordeaux, Nantes, Montpellier, Lyon, Barcelona; unrelated Singapore and Brazilian namesakes exist.
L'Éphémère
L'Éphémère was a French quarterly review of poetry and art published by the Maeght Foundation from 1967 to 1972 in twenty cahiers, founded by poets including Jacques Dupin and Yves Bonnefoy.
L'Epistre Othea
L'Epistre Othea (Épître d'Othéa) is a work of moral instruction by Christine de Pizan, framed as a letter from the goddess Othéa to Hector of Troy, written around 1400 and surviving in 47 manuscripts.
L'Espace du dedans
L'Espace du dedans ("The Space Within") is a 1944 poetry anthology by the Belgian-born French poet and painter Henri Michaux, who selected the poems himself for Gallimard.
L'esprit de l'escalier
L'esprit de l'escalier (l'esprit d'escalier), French for "staircase wit": the perfect reply thought of too late. Coined by Diderot in the Paradoxe sur le comédien; German calque Treppenwitz; also a Morellet Louvre work.
L'essenziale
"L'essenziale" is a pop ballad by Italian singer Marco Mengoni, released in February 2013. It won the Sanremo Festival and finished seventh for Italy at Eurovision 2013.
L'Étudiant noir
L'Étudiant noir was a Paris student journal founded in 1935 by Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Léon-Gontran Damas, treated as the founding organ of Négritude.
L'Étudiante
L'Étudiante (The Student) is a 1988 French romantic comedy by Claude Pinoteau starring Sophie Marceau as Valentine, an agrégation candidate in love with musician Édouard (Vincent Lindon); a La Boum follow-up written for Isabelle Adjani.
L'histoire de Manon
L'histoire de Manon (Manon) is Kenneth MacMillan's 1974 three-act Royal Ballet, based on Prévost's 1731 novel, set to arranged Massenet music with Georgiadis designs; titled L'Histoire de Manon at the Paris Opera since 1990.
L'hombre
L'hombre (lomber), also Ombre or Hombre, is a Spanish-origin three-player trick-taking card game, the first with bidding; it dominated 17th-18th century Europe and survives in Denmark, Spain (Tresillo), and South America (Rocambor).
L'Hôpital's rule
L'Hôpital's rule, also called De L'Hospital's Rule, is a calculus theorem for finding limits of quotients in indeterminate forms by differentiating the numerator and denominator separately.
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat
L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, second-largest city of Catalonia in the Barcelona metropolitan area; about 293,000 residents on roughly 12.5 km², city title granted 1925, densest zone la Florida at 88,677 inhabitants/km².
L'Impératrice
L'Impératrice: French pop and nu-disco sextet formed in Paris in 2012 by keyboardist Charles de Boisseguin; albums Matahari (2018), Tako Tsubo (2021), Pulsar (2024); original singer Flore Benguigui left in 2024 and was succeeded by Louve.
L'Inconnue de la Seine
L'Inconnue de la Seine (Unknown Woman of the Seine) is an enigmatic plaster death mask of a young woman, legend says a drowning victim from 1880s Paris; no identity is documented, and the face became Resusci Anne, the CPR training mannequin.
L'Infini
L'Infini was a French literary quarterly published in Paris from 1983 to 2022, founded and directed by Philippe Sollers as the continuation of his earlier review Tel Quel.
L'infinito
L'infinito ("The Infinite") is a poem by the Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi, composed at Recanati in 1819 and among the most famous lyrics in Italian literature.
L'Iran sous les Sassanides
L'Iran sous les Sassanides: Sasanian Iran, 224–651 CE, the empire of Ardashir I and Khusrow I, its Zoroastrian society, drachm coinage, fiscal reform, and four-century rivalry with Rome and Byzantium.
L'Jarius Sneed
L'Jarius Sneed, NFL cornerback born 1997 in Minden, Louisiana; Louisiana Tech, Chiefs fourth-rounder (138th, 2020), two-time Super Bowl champion, traded to Titans 2024 for a 2025 third, back with Kansas City in 2026.
L'Occitane en Provence
L'Occitane en Provence, commonly shortened to L'Occitane, is a French luxury cosmetics and personal-care brand founded in 1976 in Provence by Olivier Baussan, with its main site in Manosque.
L'Oiseau Blanc
L'Oiseau Blanc ("The White Bird") was a Levasseur PL.8 biplane flown by Charles Nungesser and François Coli, which vanished over the Atlantic in 1927 attempting the first Paris-to-New York flight.
L'One (musician)
L'One (Levan Gorozia) is a Russian hip-hop artist born in 1985, co-founder of Marselle, known for hits like «Все танцуют локтями» during his Black Star years.
L'Oréal
L'Oréal, also known as the L'Oréal Group, is a French cosmetics company founded in 1907 and the world's largest, with 2024 sales of €43.48 billion.
L'Orfeo
L'Orfeo is an opera by Claudio Monteverdi, with a libretto by Alessandro Striggio, premiered in Mantua on 24 February 1607 and regarded as one of the founding works of opera.
L'Origine du monde
L'Origine du monde is an 1866 oil painting by the French Realist Gustave Courbet, a close-up of a nude woman's torso and genitals, at the Musée d'Orsince since 1995.