Sonates et Concerts Royaux of Couperin Le Grand occupy two disks ( LD056 and LD060 ) and reveal the impeccable taste and workmanship of this master -- delicate, flexible and gemlike.

File: Claude Monet, Le Grand Canal. jpg | The Grand Canal, Venice 1908, Boston Museum of Fine Arts

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.

After dropping out of high school, he followed his brother Richard to France, where he performed with Le Grand Magic Circus, an avant-garde musical theater group.

* E. Bombieri, Le Grand Crible dans la Théorie Analytique des Nombres ( Seconde Édition ).

Movies which followed in its wake included Betty Blue ( 37 ° 2 le matin, 1986 ) by Beineix, The Big Blue ( Le Grand bleu, 1988 ) by Luc Besson, and The Lovers on the Bridge ( Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, 1991 ) by Léos Carax.

Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol (: " The Theater of the Big Puppet ") — known as the Grand Guignol — was a theatre in the Pigalle area of Paris ( at 20 bis, rue Chaptal ).

Also based in London, Le Nouveau Guignol form the UK's only permanent reparatory Grand Guignol company ; plays within their current repertoire include French Guignol classics such as " The Final Kiss ", " Tics ... Or Doing the Deed ", " The Lighthouse Keepers ", " Private Room Number Six " and " The Kiss of Blood ".

* The French Marquise de Créquy wrote in her book " Souvenirs ", that the tune Grand Dieu Sauve Le Roi, was written by Jean-Baptiste Lully in gratitude for the survival by Louis XIV of an anal fistula operation.

* 1923: Le Grand Écart – Thomas l ' imposteur

* Cocteau, Jean, Le Grand Écart, 1923, his first novel

* Antoine Le Grand

The first French Grand Prix took place on a 64-mile ( 103 km ) circuit based at Le Mans in 1906.

Two similar ideas are " Functional Overlapping Competing Jurisdictions " ( FOCJ ) advocated by Swiss economists Bruno Frey and Reiner Eichenberger and “ multigovernment ” advocated by Le Grand E. Day and others.

Djolof expanded its dominance of small chiefdoms south of the Senegal River ( Waalo, Cayor Baol, Sine – Saloum ), bringing together all the Senegambia to which he gave religious and social unity: the " Grand Djolof " Jean Boulègue, Le grand Jolof, XIII < sup > e </ sup >- XVI < sup > e </ sup > siècle, vol.

* Jean Boulègue, Le Grand Jolof: XIIIe-XVIe siècles, les Anciens royaumes Wolof, t. 1, Karthala, 1987, 207 pages

* 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.

In 1929 the satellite group around the journal Le Grand Jeu, including Roger Gilbert-Lecomte, Maurice Henry and the Czech painter Josef Sima, was ostracized.

Le Guin has received five Hugo awards and six Nebula awards, and was awarded the Gandalf Grand Master award in 1979 and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Grand Master Award in 2003.

The heir general to Charles II was Louis, Le Grand Dauphin, the son of his elder half-sister, Maria Theresa, and Louis XIV of France.

In German it is however generally Wallonenland: Le païs de Valons, Belgolalia, Wallonenland, in " Le Grand Dictionnaire Royal " Augsbourg, 1767 ; The name of the churches ' consecration is in Touraine assemblées, in Bretagne pardons, in the North Departments sometimes kermesses, sometimes as in the Walloon country, ducasses ( from dedicatio ) In English, it is Walloon country ( see further James Shaw ).

In the 2010 French documentary, Le Jeu de la Mort ( The Game of Death ), researchers recreated the Milgram experiment with an added critique of reality television by presenting the scenario as a game show pilot.

* 1262 – Adam de la Halle writes the first operetta, " Le Jeu de la Feuillee ".

* Adam de la Halle writes the first operetta, " Le Jeu de la Feuillee ".

* 1866: Pierre de Marivaux's Le Jeu de l ' Amour et du Hasard ( as Silvia )

His most important works are Le Triomphe de l ' amour, Le Jeu de l ' amour et du hasard and Les Fausses Confidences.

Marivaux wrote between 30 and 40 plays, the best of which are the Surprise de l ' amour ( 1722 ), the Triomphe de Plutus ( 1728 ), Jeu de l ' amour et du hasard ( 1730 ) ( The Game of Love and Chance ), Les Fausses confidences ( 1737 ), all produced at the Italian theatre, and Le Legs ( 1736 ), produced at the French.

* Le Jeu de l ' Amour et du Hasard ( 1730 )

In the French film L ' Esquive ( 2003 ), directed by Abdellatif Kechiche, Arab-French adolescents in a Paris suburb prepare and perform Marivaux's play Le Jeu de l ' amour et du hasard.

* Le Jeu de la Guerre, a wargame developed by Guy Debord, discussed in his 1987 book

In his late teens his avant-garde poetry was published in France's leading journals, and in his early twenties, although courted by André Breton co-founded, as a counter to Surrealism and Dada, a literary journal, " Le Grand Jeu " with three friends, collectively known as the Simplists, including poet Roger Gilbert-Lecomte.

Le Jeu de Paume is a moral ode published in 1791 by André Chénier

Le serment de Jeu de Paume.

He was also inspired by Jeu de l ' amour et du hasard of Marivaux, by Molière, and took some details from Beaumarchais: the quotation at the beginning of the film comes from Le Mariage de Figaro

The result was eclectic, drawing chants and material from numerous sources, including two medieval French miracle plays, Le Miracle de Théophile and Jeu de Saint Nicolas, which both contain invocations to the Devil in an unknown language.

Also in 1989 Kosuth curated the show ' Le Jeu de l ’ Indicible: Ludwig Wittgenstein et l ’ Art du Xxe Siècle ’ to commemmorate the 100th birthday of the philosopher, in which he showed numerous works by fellow artists.

fr: Le Jeu des perles de verre

* Le Jeu de la vérité ( The Game of Truth ) ( 1961 )

Fétis considered Le Jeu de Robin et Marion and Le Jeu de la feuillée forerunners of the comic opera .< ref > François-Joseph Fétis, Revue Musicale 1. 1, 1827.

Le Jeu de L ' Hombre ( 1695 ).

One ansible-like device which predates Le Guin's is the Dirac communicator in James Blish's 1954 short story " Beep ".

* 1870 – Edouard Le Roy, French philosopher and mathematician ( d. 1954 )

A camera was used to illustrate Jean Rouch's subsequent book " Le Niger En Pirogue " ( Fernand Nathan, 1954 ), as well as Jean Sauvy ’ s “ Descente du Niger ” ( L ' Harmattan 2001 ).

) During the 1950s, Le Pen took a close interest in the Algerian war ( 1954 – 62 ) and the French defense budget.

Le Pen allegedly practiced torture during the Algerian War ( 1954 – 1962 ), when he was a lieutenant in the French Army.

By 1954, the Silver City cross-Channel network comprised five routes: Gatwick — Le Touquet, Lydd — Le Touquet, Lympne — Calais, Lympne — Ostend and Southampton — Cherbourg.

In 1954, he was the first actor to play a James Bond villain when he portrayed Le Chiffre in a television adaptation of Casino Royale, opposite Barry Nelson as an American James Bond.

* Le Chevalier de la nuit, Telenet Film, 1954.

* Pièces roses ( Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1942 ) – comprises " Le Bal des voleurs ," " Le Rendez-vous de Senlis ," and Léocadia ;" Le Bal des voleurs translated by Lucienne Hill as Thieves ' Carnival ( London: Methuen, 1952 ); Le Rendez-vous de Senlis translated by Edwin O. Marsh as Dinner with the Family ( London: Methuen, 1958 ); Léocadia translated by Patricia Moyes as Time Remembered ( London: S. French, 1954 ).

* Le mouton à cinq pattes directed starring Louis de Funès by Henri Verneuil ( 1954 )

* Le reine de Césarée ( 1954 ), a French drama by Robert Brasillach

fr: Le crime était presque parfait ( film, 1954 )

* Aubry, Paul V., Monge, Le savant ami de Napoléon Bonaparte, Paris, Gauthiers-Villars, 1954.

* Des journées entières dans les arbres, " Le Boa ", " Madame Dodin ", " Les Chantiers ", Gallimard, 1954 ( tr.

* Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Le messe di Mantova, Le opere complete, xviii – xix ( Rome, 1954 )

From 1945 until the original Warner Bros. Cartoons studio closed, Freleng had almost exclusive use of Tweety at the Warner cartoon studio ( much like Yosemite Sam ), with the exception of a brief cameo in No Barking in 1954, directed by Chuck Jones ( that year, Freleng used Pepé Le Pew, a Jones character, for the only time in his career and the only time in a Tweety short, Dog Pounded ).

In 1954, Le Devoir ran a six-part series on problems during the construction of the Bersimis-1 generating station.

Hancock left Educating Archie in 1954 to work on his own radio show — Hancock's Half Hour, but still kept up his friendship with Le Mesurier, whilst Jacques joined the cast of the show in 1956, for the fourth series.

Le Monde diplomatique was founded in 1954 by Hubert Beuve-Méry, founder and director of Le Monde, the French newspaper of record.