In 1937, Jean Renoir, the son of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, directed what many see as his first masterpiece, La Grande Illusion ( The Grand Illusion ).

The war comedy La Grande Vadrouille ( 1966 ), from Gérard Oury with Bourvil, was the most successful film in French theaters for more than 30 years.

:* Highest point: La Grande Soufrière -

: Hurricanes ( June to October ); La Grande Soufrière is an active volcano

The French army was renamed La Grande Armée in 1805 and Napoleon used propaganda and nationalism to control the French population.

However, Bremmer advised her not to buy A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Seurat, which turned out to be an important icon of 20th century art.

Conceived as a kind of minaret alongside the squat, monumental Grande Arche de La Défense, < u > the endless tower has taken on some of the mystique of Mies van der Rohe ’ s unbuilt Friedrichstrasse glass skyscraper of 1921 </ u >.

* La Grande Boissière, largest campus: International School of Geneva

Everdell also thinks modernism in painting began in 1885-86 with Seurat's Divisionism, the " dots " used to paint " A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.

* " Into Great Silence "- Documentary of life within the Carthusian monastery of La Grande Chartreuse by Philip Groning.

Nicolas Chauvin is a legendary, possibly apocryphal French soldier and patriot who is supposed to have served in the First Army of the French Republic and subsequently in La Grande Armée of Napoleon.

The first official appearance of the 924 took place in November 1975 ( as a press launch rather than a motorshow appearance ) at the harbour at La Grande Motte, Camargue in the south of France.

The dawn of fascism in the early 1920s heralded a change of strategy for Italy, as the north-eastern sultanates were soon to be forced within the boundaries of La Grande Somalia according to the plan of Fascist Italy.

Stella Artois is available on draught and in several packaged sizes, including a 250-ml bottle, 275-ml bottle, 284-ml bottle, 330-ml bottle, 330-ml can, 440-ml can, 500-ml can, pint-size can known as " La Grande Bière " ( 568 ml ), 660-ml bottle, 700-ml bottle, 985-ml bottle, and a 1-litre bottle.

Between 1687 and 1700 several missions were founded in Trinidad and Tobago, but only four survived as Amerindian villages throughout the eighteenth century – La Anuncíata de Nazaret de Savana Grande ( modern Princes Town ), Purísima Concepción de María Santísima de Guayri ( modern San Fernando ), Santa Ana de Savaneta ( modern Savonetta ), Nuestra Señora de Montserrate ( probably modern Mayo ).

La Grande Armée in Vilnius during its retreat

The war was not all about the prowess of the outfit shown in a film, the comedy genre used as well the war time as a background like in La Grande Vadrouille ( 1966 ) and Kelly's Heroes ( 1970 ).

Piccole Visioni: La Grande Storia di una Molecola.

North La Veta Pass, through the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, is used by US Highway 160 and by the San Luis and Rio Grande Railroad ( formerly a branch of the Denver & Rio Grande Western ) tracks.

* La Grande Bretèche

fr: La Grande Chasse

Famous movies featuring Gassman include: Il sorpasso ( 1962 ), La Grande Guerra ( 1962 ), I mostri ( 1963 ), L ' Armata Brancaleone ( 1966 ), Profumo di donna ( 1974 ) and C ' eravamo tanto amati ( 1974 ).

* Uniforms of La Grande Armée

* La Chartreuse du reposoir ( 1924 )

The Former Chartreuse De La Part-Dieu, Gruyères Castle, Saint-Germain Castle, the town's fortifications, the Grange du Laviau, the House at Rue du Bourg 7, the House at Rue du Bourg 39 and the House dite de Chalamala at Rue du Bourg 47 are listed as Swiss heritage site of national significance.

File: La_Part-Dieu_Gruyères_Nov_2011. jpg | Former Chartreuse De La Part-Dieu

** Stendhal-Le Rouge et le Noir ( The Red and the Black ), La Chartreuse de Parme ( The Charterhouse of Parma )

de: La Grande Chartreuse

pl: La Grande Chartreuse

The name is derived as an Anglicisation of La Grande Chartreuse, whose order founded the monastery.

This quote appears also at the end of " La Chartreuse de Parme ").

Gresset, now famous, left Rouen for Paris, where he found refuge in the same garret which had sheltered him when a boy at the Collège Louis le Grand, and there wrote his second poem, La Chartreuse.

* The Girl from the Chartreuse ( original title: La petite chartreuse ) ( 2005 ) .... Pascale Blanchot

His translation from Alexander Pope, L ' Essai sur l ' homme, was published with an elaborate preface in 1783, and La Chartreuse and Le Jour des morts in the same year, Le Verger in 1788 and his Epître sur l ' édit en faveur des non-catholiques, and the Essai sur l ' astronomie in 1789.

* Into Great Silence The award winning documentary of life within the Carthusian monsastery of ' La Grande Chartreuse ' by Philip Groning.

* The novel was filmed in 1948 as La Chartreuse de Parme, directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Gerard Philipe as Fabricio, Maria Casares as Gina Sanseverina, and Renée Faure as Clelia Conti.

fr: La Chartreuse de Parme

nl: La Chartreuse de Parme

Angélo, like Stendhal ’ s Fabrice del Dongo ( La Chartreuse de Parme ) on whom he is modelled, is a chivalrous romantic whose quest constitutes an inquiry into the nature of happiness, while the cholera epidemic he finds himself confronted with in Provence in 1832 is an allegory for the wars that had so deeply affected Giono.

* American blues-rock band ZZ Top recorded a song called " Chartreuse " for their 2012 album La Futura.

The former monastery La Chartreuse, partly destroyed in the French Revolution, now houses a museum ; covering an area of, it used to be a genuine city within the city.

He worked ten years on La Chartreuse de Parme ( The Charterhouse of Parma, 1936 )-based on Stendhal's novel-an opera that had a reputation in France as his most important work.