* January 14 – Jacques-Donatien Le Ray, French supporter of the American Revolution ( d. 1803 )

In 1750, Jacques-Donatien Le Ray purchased the castle as a country home where he established a glassmaking and pottery factory.

The village is named for Jacques-Donatien Le Ray, the Comte de Chaumont in France.

The town is named for Jacques-Donatien Le Ray, from France.

* Jacques-Donatien Le Ray

Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont by Jean-Baptiste Nini ( 1771 ), Château de Chaumont

Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont ( 1726 – 1803 ) was a French " Father of the American Revolution ", but later an opponent of the French Revolution.

Born in the port city of Nantes in Brittany in 1726, Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont became one of the wealthiest and most powerful aristocrats in all of France.

Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont served King Louis XVI at the Court at Versailles as the Governor of Les Invalides in Paris and the Grand Master of Waters and Lands of Blois.

As a result of their friendship, Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont helped obtain French support for the American cause with both money and French armed forces.

Along with Benjamin Franklin, Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont worked with John Adams, Silas Deane, the Marquis de Lafayette and the Comte de Vergennes to help with the American Revolution.

When the War ended with the treaty of 1783 signed in Paris, Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont had a portrait medallion made of Benjamin Franklin by Jean-Baptiste Nini.

Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont ' son named Le Ray ( 1760 – 1840 ) went to America in 1785.

In the end, the political ideals that Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont cherished came back to haunt him.

As a result of France's generosity and Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont's love of America, he inadvertently helped pave the way for the French Revolution, in 1789, that dramatically impacted on his own finances, resulting in the new French Revolutionary government seizing his assets including his beloved Chateau at Chaumont-sur-Loire.

Without the help of Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont and France, the United States of America would almost certainly not have won their independence.

When the British invaded American in 1812, Jacques-Donatien Le Ray Jr. and the government of France also worked to help America during the War of 1812.

* Thomas J. Schaeper, The Life of Jacques-Donatien Le Ray de Chaumont ( 1995 ; ISBN 1-57181-050-1 ).

* Le Ray ( town )

American Ray Heppenstall joined Howmet Corporation and McKee Engineering together to develop their own gas turbine sports car in 1968, the Howmet TX, which ran several American and European events, including two wins, and also participated in the 1968 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Arkham House also published fiction by many of Lovecraft's contemporaries, including Ray Bradbury, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, and Derleth himself ; classic genre fiction by authors such as William Hope Hodgson, Algernon Blackwood, H. Russell Wakefield, Seabury Quinn, and Sheridan Le Fanu ; and later writers in the Lovecraft school, such as Ramsey Campbell and Brian Lumley to whom Derleth gave their earliest publication in hardcover.

The work of modernists in the collection include Le Corbusier, Marcel Breuer, Charles and Ray Eames, Giò Ponti and Eileen Gray.

The collection includes the work of many photographers from Fox Talbot, Julia Margaret Cameron, Clementina Maude, Gustave Le Gray, Benjamin Brecknell Turner, Frederick Hollyer, Samuel Bourne, Roger Fenton, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ilse Bing, Bill Brandt, Cecil Beaton ( there are over 8000 of his negatives ), Don McCullin, David Bailey, Jim Lee and Helen Chadwick to the present day.

* Le Ray Township ( northeast )

* Le Ray Township ( south )

Le Ray Township is a township in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, United States.

Le Ray Township was first settled in 1856 and was organized in 1860.

es: Municipio de Le Ray ( condado de Blue Earth, Minnesota )

* Le Ray Township ( southeast )

* Le Ray Township ( east )

* Le Ray Township ( north )

The town was established in 1821 from the Town of Brownville and the Town of Le Ray.

The Village of Black River is on the border of the Town of Le Ray and the Town of Rutland.

The community incorporated as a village in 1891, taking land from both Towns of Rutland and Le Ray.

Calcium is in the Town of Le Ray and was formerly called Sanford's Corner.

The Village of Evans Mills in within the Town of Le Ray and is northeast of Watertown.

Le Ray is a town in Jefferson County, New York, United States.

The Town of Le Ray is in the central part of the county and is east of Watertown.

`` Le petit dejeuner '', Harold said, in an accent that did credit to Miss Sloan, his high-school French teacher.

The exposition of these ideas, encouraged by Widor and Munch, became Schweitzer's next task, and appeared in the masterly study J. S. Bach: Le Musicien-Poète, written in French and published in 1905.

* 1755 – Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, French painter ( d. 1842 )

The French newspaper Le Figaro described the young king as " the happiest and best-loved of all the rulers of the earth ".

In reply to this the French sovereign dispatched Andrew as his ambassador to Güyük Khan ; with Longjumeau went his brother William ( also a Dominican ) and several others — John Goderiche, John of Carcassonne, Herbert " Le Sommelier ," Gerbert of Sens, Robert ( a clerk ), a certain William, and an unnamed clerk of Poissy.

* 1952 – Thierry Le Luron, French humorist ( d. 1986 )

* 1990 – Damien Le Tallec, French footballer

* 1744 – Alexandrine Le Normant d ' Étiolles, French daughter of Madame de Pompadour ( d. 1754 )

Brigitte Bardot is supporting Front National candidate Marine Le Pen in the 2012 French Presidential Election.

A French translation, Le Recueil des Prières de la Communauté Chrétienne, was published in 1967.

Among the plays which he wrote in French, the most successful was Le bourru bienfaisant, produced on the occasion of the marriage of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette in 1771.

The film's original French title is Le fond de l ' air est rouge, which means " the air is essentially red ", or " revolution is in the air ", implying that the socialist movement existed only in the air.

For seventy-four years ( 1689-1763 ) there were six colonial wars, which involved continuous warfare between New England and Acadia ( see the French and Indian Wars as well as Father Rale's War and Father Le Loutre's War ).

In other legal cases, Pissarro's " Le Quai Malaquais, Printemps ," is said to have been similarly stolen, along with the estimated 650, 000 lost works of art, including those by other French Impressionists.

However, in the late 15th century, Thomas Malory created the image of Camelot most familiar to English speakers today in his Le Morte d ' Arthur, a work based mostly on the French romances.

Piron is the author of a book in French, Le bonheur clés en main ( The Keys to Happiness ), which distinguishes among pleasure, happiness and joy.

In 1727 the first French commander, M. Le Grand, took charge of the island and established a rudimentary government thus making Dominica formally a colony of France.

André Le Breton, a bookseller and printer, approached Diderot with a project for the publication of a translation of Ephraim Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences into French, first undertaken by the Englishman John Mills, and followed by the German Gottfried Sellius.

He wrote sentimental plays, Le Fils naturel ( 1757 ) and Le Père de famille ( 1758 ), accompanying them with essays on theatrical theory and practice, including " Les Entretiens sur Le Fils Naturel " ( Conversations on The Natural Son ), in which he announced the principles of a new drama: the ' serious genre ', a realistic midpoint between comedy and tragedy that stood in opposition to the stilted conventions of the classical French stage.

Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language is a long book devoted to language and translation, especially poetry translation, and one of its leitmotifs is a set of some 88 translations of " Ma Mignonne ", a highly constrained poem by 16th-century French poet Clément Marot.

* 1908 – Augustus Le Plongeon, French antiquitarian ( b. 1825 )

For short film enthusiasts and cinema professionals, Sagunenay International Short film Festival ( REGARD sur le court métrage au Saguenay, in French ) is now a " must-go event " ( Francois Levesque, Le Devoir ).

But the first public screening of film ever is due to Jean Aimé " Acme " Le Roy, a French photographer.