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.

* Le Grand Jeu ( 1954 )

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 ).

Nuvolari countered that he was a leading Grand Prix driver and Le Mans was a simple layout that would not trouble him, to which Sommer backed down and they agreed to divide the driving equally.

It was adapted in 1970 as the TV movie Das Millionenspiel, and again in 1983 as the movie Le Prix du Danger.

While almost all of the Prix de Rome cantatas have long since been forgotten ( along with their composers, for the most part ), Debussy's prize-winning L ' enfant prodigue ( 1884, following his unsuccessful Le gladiateur of 1883 ) is still performed occasionally today.

* Le Prix de l ' Office Chrétien du Livre

Le Feu drew criticism at the time for its harsh naturalism, but won the Prix Goncourt.

After that the 1928 French Grand Prix was held in nearby Saint-Gaudens, Pau also wanted to arrange the race and in 1930 the French Grand Prix was held on a Le Mans-type track outside the city with Philippe Étancelin winning for Bugatti.

Another uncle, Maurice Trintignant ( 1917 – 2005 ), was a Formula One driver who twice won the Monaco Grand Prix as well as the Le Mans.

fr: Le Prix d ' un homme

Le Prix du Danger ( The price of the Danger ) is a 1983 French-Yugoslav science fiction movie, directed by Yves Boisset.

fr: Le Prix du danger ( film )

* 2001: Les Cent-Jours ou l ' esprit de sacrifice ( Perrin, 2001 – Le Grand livre du mois, 2001 – Perrin, 2002 – Éditions France loisirs, 2003 ); a book about the " One Hundred Days " between the return of Napoleon from Elba and the defeat at the Battle of Waterloo ; awarded the Grand Prix d ' Histoire of the Fondation Napoléon ( 2001 ) and the Prix des Ambassadeurs ( 2001 ).

Well-known recipients of the Prix de Rome included the architect Tony Garnier, who, instead of concentrating his studies on the ancient ruins, used his time at the Academy ( between 1899 and 1904 ) principally to develop his ideas for the development of a modern industrial city ( Une Cité Industrielle, published in 1918 ), a precursor of later modernist urban and architectural ideas of twentieth century architects such as Le Corbusier.

* Road racing is banned as a result and the legacy of the event is the introduction of circuits, the first being opened at Le Mans in 1906 for the inaugural French Grand Prix, organised by the Automobile Club de France ( ACF ).

* The trophy is awarded annually until 1905, after which the Automobile Club de France ( ACF ) holds the first Grand Prix motor racing event on the Circuit de la Sarthe at Le Mans

* 26 June — official Grand Prix motor racing begins with the inaugural French Grand Prix, organised by the Automobile Club de France ( ACF ) on the Circuit de la Sarthe at Le Mans.

* Prix Médicis French: Armelle Lebras-Chopard, Le zoo des philosophes

* Prix Médicis French: Les Sept Noms du peintre-Philippe Le Guillou

* Prix Goncourt: Pascale Roze, Le Chasseur Zéro

* Prix Goncourt: Andreï Makine, Le Testament français

* Prix Médicis French: Vassilis Alexakis, La Langue maternelle and Andreï Makine, Le testament français

* Prix Goncourt: Amin Maalouf, Le Rocher de Tanios