In a well-known joke ( 1976 ), Daniel Prévost in the TV show " Le petit rapporteur " animated by Jacques Martin, visited the town and joked by asking a Montcuquois: " Is Montcuq well lit?

Starting in 1975, he became a " reporter " on Le petit rapporteur ( The Little Snitch ), a satirical TV show hosted by Jacques Martin.

* " Le petit rapporteur " ( 1999 ) ( The Little Snitch )

In his 1840 novel Le Notaire, he wrote that a young person in the legal profession sees " the oily wheels of every fortune, the hideous wrangling of heirs over corpses not yet cold, the human heart grappling with the Penal Code.

In 1840, François Arago, the director of the Paris Observatory, suggested to the French mathematician Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier that he work on the topic of the planet Mercury's orbital motion around the Sun.

* The Fencing Master ( Le Maître d ' armes, 1840 )

Barault-Roullon, Le Marechal Suchet ( Paris, 1854 ); * Choumara, Considerations militaires sur les memoires du Marechal Suchet ( Paris, 1840 ), a controversial work on the last events of the Peninsular War, inspired, it is supposed, by Soult

His chief works are a monograph on Aenesidemus the Sceptic ( 1840 ); Le Scepticisme: Ænésidème, Pascal, Kant ( 1845 ); a translation of Spinoza ( 1843 ); Précurseurs et disciples de Descartes ( 1862 ); Discours de la philosophie de Leibniz ( 1857 )-- a work which had great influence on the progress of thought in France ; Essai de philosophie religieuse ( 1859 ); Critique et histoire de la philosophie ( 1865 ).

Meanwhile in Paris Meyerbeer began to seek new libretti, initially considering Le prophète of Scribe, Le cinq mars by Henri Saint-Georges and eventually settling on Scribe's Vasco da Gama ( later to become L ' Africaine ), which he contracted to complete by 1840.

He edited William of Malmesbury's De gestis regum anglorum ( 2 vols., 1840 ); he continued and corrected John Le Neve's Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae ( 3 vols., Oxford, 1854 ); and with CT Martin he edited and translated L ' Estorie des Engles of Geoffrey Gaimar ( 1888 – 1889 ).

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

La Mère de Dieu (" The Mother of God ", 1844 ) followed and, after leaving the seminary, two radical tracts, L ' Evangile du Peuple (" The Gospel of the People ", 1840 ), and Le Testament de la Liberté (" The Testament of Liberty "), published in the year of revolutions, 1848, led to two brief prison sentences.

Contes d ' une vieille fille a ses neveux ( 1832 ), La Canne de Monsieur de Balzac ( 1836 ) and Il ne faut pas jouer avec la douleur ( 1853 ) are among the best-known of her romances ; and her dramatic pieces in prose and verse include L ' École des journalistes ( 1840 ), Judith ( 1843 ), Cléopâtre ( 1847 ), Lady Tartufe ( 1853 ), and the one-act comedies, C ' est la faute du mari ( 1851 ), La Joie fait peur ( 1854 ), Le Chapeau d ' un horloger ( 1854 ) and Une Femme qui deteste son mari, which did not appear till after the author's death.

" ( Augustus Aspley Le Gros 1840 – 1877 ), " St .- Luorenchais " ( Philippe Langlois 1817 – 1884 ).

Le Compagnon du Tour de France was a novel written by George Sand in 1840.

His prose works include Des habitudes intellectuelles de l ' avocat ( 1840 ), Questions d ' art et de morale ( 1861 ), Le Sentiment de la nature, avant le Christianisme in 1866, Chez les modernes in 1868, and Education libérale in 1873.

Louis de BonaldLouis Gabriel Ambroise, Vicomte de Bonald ( 2 October 1754, Le Monna ( part of Millau ), Rouergue ( now Aveyron )-23 November 1840, Le Monna ), was a French counter-revolutionary philosopher and politician.

We shall not go far wrong if we include in the list Hyacinthe Morel ( 1756 – 1829 ), of Avignon, whose collection of poems, Lou Saboulet, has been republished by Frédéric Mistral ; Louis Aubanel ( 178 ~- 1842 ), of Nîmes, the successful translator of Anacreon's Odes ; Auguste Tandon, the troubadour of Montpellier, who wrote Fables, contes et autres pièces en vers ( 1800 ); Fabre d ' Olivet, the versatile littérateur who in 1803 published Le Troubadour: Poésies occitaniques, which, in order to secure their success, he gave out as the work of some medieval poet Diou-loufet ( 1771 – 1840 ), who wrote a didactic poem, in the manner of Virgil, relating to silkworm-breeding ( Leis magnans ); Jacques Azais ( 1778 – 1856 ), author of satires, fables, & c .; d ' Astros ( 1780 – 1863 ), a writer of fables in La Fontaine's manner ; Castil-Blaze, who found time, amidst his musical pursuits, to compose Provençal poems, intended to be set to music ; the Marquis de Fare-Alais ( 1791 – 1846 ), author of some light satirical tales ( Las Castagnados ).

The term was never used in the most famous Italian texts on singing: Giulio Caccini's Le Nuove musiche ( 1601 / 2 ); Pier Francesco Tosi's, Opinioni de ' cantori antichi e moderni ( 1723 ); Giovanni Battista Mancini's Pensieri, e riflessioni pratiche sopra il canto figurato ( 1774 ); Manuel García's Mémoire sur la voix humaine ( 1841 ), and Traité complet de l ’ art du chant ( 1840 – 47 ); nor was it used by the English authors Charles Burney ( 1726 – 1814 ) and Henry Fothergill Chorley ( 1808 – 1872 ), both of whom wrote at length about Italian singing of a period when ornamentation was essential.

Examples: The Ordeals ( 1833 ); Love and Folly, or The Mystifying Bell ( 1840 ).< ref > Les Epreuves, grande pantomime-arlequinade-féerie en 13 tableaux, mêlée de danses, travestissements, etc., précédée de: Le Cheveu du Diable, prologue en un acte et en 2 tableaux, en vers libres, mêlée de chants, danses, etc.

* Augustus Asplet Le Gros ( 1840 – 1877 ), Norman language poet from Jersey and a Jurat of the Royal Court of Jersey

Between 1838 and 1850, the Paris Opéra staged numerous grand operas of which the most notable were Halévy's La reine de Chypre ( 1841 ) and Charles VI ( 1843 ), Donizetti's La favorite ( 1840 ) and Dom Sébastien ( 1843, librettos by Scribe ), and Meyerbeer's Le prophète ( 1849 ) ( Scribe again ).

' ( Augustus Aspley Le Gros 1840 – 1877 ), and ' St .- Luorenchais ' ( Philippe Langlois 1817 – 1884 ).

* Le Colloque de Poissy ( 1840 ), at the Luxembourg Museum in Paris