Le Brocquy is widely acclaimed for his evocative " Portrait Heads " of literary figures and fellow artists, which include William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, and his friends Samuel Beckett, Francis Bacon and Seamus Heaney, in recent years le Brocquy's early " Tinker " subjects and Grey period " Family " paintings, have attracted attention on the international marketplace placing le Brocquy within a very select group of British and Irish artists whose works have commanded prices in excess of £ 1 million during their lifetimes that include Lucian Freud, David Hockney, Frank Auerbach, and Francis Bacon.

Le Brocquy died on 25 April 2012 and was survived by his daughter Seyre from his first marriage ( 1938 – 1948 ) to Jean Stoney, and his two grandsons John-Paul and David ; his second wife Anne Madden, and their two sons, Pierre and Alexis.

Texts by Serge Faucherau ‘ La Peinture de Louis le Brocquy ’; Proinsias MacCana ‘ Le culte des têtes ’.

Texts by le Brocquy ‘ Artist ’ s Notes ’; Seamus Heaney ‘ le Brocquy ’ s Táin ’; Dorothy Walker ‘ Le Brocquy ’ s Tapestries ’.

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

The libretto, a version of Pierre Beaumarchais ' stage play Le Barbier de Séville, was newly written by Cesare Sterbini and not the same as that already used by Giovanni Paisiello in his own Barbiere, an opera which had enjoyed European popularity for more than a quarter of a century.

The French appointed Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville, who had shown great heroism during the raids, as commander of the company's captured posts.

In 1799, William Pierre Le Cocq, in a letter written in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, England, provides a reference to the game hockey: “ I must now describe to you the game of Hockey ; we have each a stick turning up at the end.

* Le Morvan, Pierre ( 2005 ) " A Metaphilosophical Dilemma for Epistemic Externalism ", Metaphilosophy 36 ( 5 ), pp. 688 – 707.

* Pierre Efratas wrote a sequel called Le Destin d ' Ivanhoe ( 2003 ), published by Éditions Charles Corlet.

* 1972: Le Viager, directed by Pierre Tchernia ( cameo )

Soon he would begin his own architectural practice with his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret ( 1896 – 1967 ), a partnership that would last until the 1950s, with an interruption in the WWII years, due to Le Corbusier's ambivalent position towards the Vichy regime.

Between 1922 and 1927, Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret designed many of these private houses for clients around Paris.

In Boulogne-sur-Seine and the 16th arrondissement of Paris, Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret designed and built the Villa Lipschitz, Maison Cook ( see William Edwards Cook ), Maison Planeix, and the Maison La Roche / Albert Jeanneret, which now houses the Fondation Le Corbusier.

* Gilbert David and Pierre Lavoie, editors, " Le Monde de Michel Tremblay ".

Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville and his brother Lemoyne de Bienville founded Louisiana, Biloxi, Mobile and New Orleans.

* 1715 – Pierre Charles Le Monnier, French astronomer ( d. 1799 )

The most influential Russian version of Ossian was the 1792 translation by Ermil Kostrov, who based his work on Pierre Le Tourneur's 1777 translation from the original.

He also immediately commissioned a representative tomb from the sculptor Pierre Le Gros the Younger to be erected in the Sistine Chapel of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore.

Portrait of Pius V by Pierre Le Gros

* Pierre Le Guennec

It occasioned a long-drawn controversy between Pierre Bayle and Le Clerc, the former maintaining, the latter denying, that the Plastic Medium is really favourable to atheism.

Pierre Le Morvan ( 2011 ) has distinguished between three broad philosophical approaches to skepticism.

* 1697 – War of the Grand Alliance: A French warship commanded by Captain Pierre Le Moyne d ' Iberville defeated an English squadron at the Battle of Hudson's Bay.

* Le Morvan, Pierre ( 2004 ), " Ramsey on Truth and Truth on Ramsey ", British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 12 ( 4 ) 2004, 705 – 718, PDF.

Le nozze di Figaro, ossia la folle giornata ( The Marriage of Figaro, or The Day of Madness ), K. 492, is an opera buffa ( comic opera ) composed in 1786 in four acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with a libretto in Italian by Lorenzo Da Ponte, based on a stage comedy by Pierre Beaumarchais, La folle journée, ou le Mariage de Figaro ( 1784 ).

It resembles an earlier French fabliau by Pierre Anfons called " Le revenant.

* Peter Le Huray " Anthem " in Stanley Sadie, ed.

* Le Maitre, L. E., ed.

* Le nozze di Telemaco ed Antiope ( 5 November 1824, Karntnertortheater, Wien )

* Anderson Magalhães, Le Comédies bibliques di Margherita di Navarra, tra evangelismo e mistero medievale, in La mujer: de los bastidores al proscenio en el teatro del siglo XVI, ed.

** « Le renouveau du symbolisme du phénix au XXe s. », Présence de l ’ Antiquité grecque et romaine au XXe s., ed.

** « Le roman indien du phénix ou les variations romanesques du mythe du phénix », Présence du roman grec et latin, ed.

Vasari's Le Vite de ' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori ( Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects ) — dedicated to Grand Duke Cosimo I de ' Medici — was first published in 1550.

* Jean-Claude Thiolier, ed., Édition critique et commentée de Pierre de Langtoft, Le règne d ' Édouard Ier ( Créteil: C. E. L. I. M. A., Université de Paris XII, 1989-).

* Aristophanes Le Donne al Parlamento ed.

** Chevrier, Le Général Joubert d ' après sa correspondence ( 2nd ed.

* Le più recenti scoperte ed applicazioni della psichiatria ed antropologia criminale, ( 1894 )

Le chiese di Roma nel medio evo: cataloghi ed appunti.

; J Morley, Diderot and the Encyclopaedists ( London, 1878 ); DG Mostratos, Die Pädagogik des Helvétius ( Berlin, 1891 ); A Guillois, Le Salon de Madame Helvétius ( 1894 ); A Piazzi, Le idee filosofiche specialmente pedagogiche de C. A. Helvétius ( Milan, 1889 ); Georgi Plekhanov, Beiträge zur Geschichte des Materialismus ( Stuttgart, 1896 ); L Limentani, Le teorie psicologiche de C. A. Helvétius ( Verona, 1902 ); A Keim, Helvétius, sa vie et son œuvre ( 1907 ); Isaiah Berlin, " Helvétius " in Freedom and Its Betrayal: Six Enemies of Liberty, ed.

Besides important contributions to La France and the Revue des deux mondes, he wrote Du mysticisme au XVIIIe siècle ( 1852-1854 ), L ' Idée de Dieu ( 1864 ), Le Matérialisme et la science ( 1868 ), Le Pessimisme au XIX ' siècle ( 1878 ), Jours d ' épreuve ( 1872 ), M. Littré et le positivisme ( 1883 ), George Sand ( 1887 ), Mélanges et portraits ( i888 ), La Philosophie de Goethe ( 2nd ed., 1880 ).

His poems have often been reprinted, the best editions being those of Le Monnier, Carducci ( 1859 ; 3rd ed., 1879 ), Fioretti ( 1876 ) and Bragi ( 1890 ).

* Le Roux and Van Marle, " Critical Legal Studies " in Roeder ( ed ) ( 2004 ) Jurisprudence

He published successively Histoire d ’ Apelles ( 1867 ), a study on Greek art ; L ' Armée dans la Grèce antique ( 1867 ); Histoire d ’ Alcibiade et de la République athénienne, depuis la mort de Périclès jusqu ’ à l ’ avènement des trente tyrans ( 1873 ); Papers on Le Nombre des citoyens d ' Athènes au Vème siècle avant l ’ ère chrétienne ( 1882 ); La Loi agraire à Sparte ( 1884 ); Le premier siège de Paris, an 52 avant l ’ ère chrétienne ( 1876 ); and two volumes of miscellanies, Athènes, Rome, Paris, l ' histoire et les mœurs ( 1879 ), and Aspasie, Cléopâtre, Théodora ( 6th ed.

He is among the artists profiled in Vasari's Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori.

* Roberts, John H. ' Meyerbeer: Le Prophéte and L ' Africaine ' ; in: David Charlton ( ed.