* 1908 – Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France.

They included the 1½-litre " T-type ", the " International ", the " Le Mans ", the " MKII ", its racing derivative, the " Ulster ", and the 2-litre 15 / 98 and its racing derivative the " Speed Model ".

One of the very few motor manufacturers to actually sit in and race the cars he designed and built, the competition no doubt " improved the breed " and the " LM " team cars were very successful in national and international motor racing including at Le Mans and the Mille Miglia.

It also finished seventh in the 1982 24 Hours of Le Mans race.

The DBR9 competes in the GT class in sports car races, including the world-famous 24 Hours of Le Mans.

* 1932 – 1932 Aston Martin International Le Mans

* 1932 – 1934 Aston Martin Le Mans

The first Baron was Hamelin de Balun, from Ballon, a small town and castle in Maine-Anjou called " Gateway to Maine ", near Le Mans, today in the Sarthe département of France.

The Priory belonged originally to the Benedictine foundation of St. Vincent Abbaye at Le Mans.

* Jürgen Klötgen, Prieuré d ' Abergavenny – Tribulations mancelles en Pays de Galles au temps du Pape Jean XXII ( d ' après des documents français et anglais du XIV ° siècle collationnés avec une source d ' histoire retrouvée aux Archives Secrètes du Vatican ), in Revue Historique et Archéologique du Maine, Le Mans, 1989, p. 65 – 88 ( 1319: cf John of Hastings, Lord of Abergavenny ; Adam de Orleton, Bishop of Hereford, John of Monmouth, Bishop of Llandaff ).

From the 12th to the 15th century, Bordeaux regained importance following the marriage of Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine with the French-speaking Count Henri Plantagenet, born in Le Mans, who became, within months of their wedding, King Henry II of England.

Instead, it was 1927 Le Mans winner, S. C. H. " Sammy " Davis who was brought in as a track design advisor in July 1946 although the layout was partly dictated by the existing roads.

The same car won the 2006 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Run since 1929, it is widely considered to be one of the most important and prestigious automobile races in the world, alongside the Indianapolis 500 and the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

The photo shows the livery as used at Le Mans in 1966.

The Ford GT40 is a high performance British-American sports car and winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans four consecutive times, from 1966 to 1969 ( 1966 being the Mk II, 1967 the Mk IV, and 1968-1969 the oldest chassis design, the Mk I ).

With this car Ford became in 1966 the first and so far the only American constructor to win overall at Le Mans.

In addition to that, the Mk IV became in 1967 so far the only racecar built entirely in the United States to win overall at Le Mans, whilst in the previous year Ford won with a British-built chassis and only an engine came from America.

It was built to win long-distance sports car races against Ferrari ( who won at Le Mans six times in a row from 1960 to 1965 ).

Chassis # P-1075, which won in 1968 and 1969, is the first car in Le Mans history to win the race more than once with the same chassis, and one of three cars to have won with the same chassis.

The name " GT40 " was the name of Ford's project to prepare the cars for the international endurance racing circuit, and the quest to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Henry Ford II had wanted a Ford at Le Mans since the early 1960s.

It was one of the most advanced racing cars of the time, and made a noted performance in Le Mans 1963, even though the car did not finish, due to low gearing and so revving out on the Mulsanne Straight.

Three weeks later at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, all three entries retired although the Ginther / Gregory car led the field from the second lap until its first pitstop.

The experience gained in 1964 and 1965 allowed the 7-litre Mk II to dominate the 24 Hours of Le Mans race in 1966 with a 1-2-3 result.

A French translation, Le Recueil des Prières de la Communauté Chrétienne, was published in 1967.

During practice at Le Mans in 1967, in an effort to preserve the highly-stressed brakes, Gurney developed a strategy ( also adopted by co-driver A. J.

IV ran in only two races, the 1967 12 Hours of Sebring and the 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans and won both events.

IV during the 1967 Le Mans, but escaped with minor injuries.

The film is also considered to be an homage to Le Samourai, a 1967 French New Wave film by auteur Jean-Pierre Melville, which starred renowned French actor Alain Delon in a strikingly similar role and narrative.

* 1967: Le Plus Vieux Métier du monde, directed by Claude Autant-Lara and Mauro Bolognini

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.

* Bernard Grosbellet, Le Moniteur du Sénégal et dépendances comme sources de l ' histoire du Sénégal pendant le premier gouvernement de Faidherbe ( 1856 – 1861 ), Dakar, Université de Dakar, 1967, 113 pages ( Diplôme d ' Etudes Supérieures )

* Le Pétomane 1857-1945 a tribute to the unique act which shook and shattered the Moulin-Rouge ( 1967 ), By Jean Nohain and François Caradec-Publisher: Souvenir Press

Los Angeles-based Sherbourne Press published Jean Nohain and F. Caradec's Le Pétomane as a small hardcover English language edition in 1967.

* French — Albicocco, Jean-Gabriel: Le Grand Meaulnes a. k. a. The Wanderer ( 1967 film ; based upon the Alain-Fournier novel above under # Fiction | Fiction ); Godard, Jean-Luc: Pierrot le fou ( Pierrot the Fool film ).

At the 1967 24 Hours of Le Mans, winner Dan Gurney started the tradition of drivers spraying the crowd and each other.

In a study done by Leonard Berkowitz and Anthony Le Page ( 1967 ), college students were made angry and then left in the presence of a gun or badminton racket.

* L ' Hurluberlu, ou Le Réactionnaire amoureux ( Paris: La Table Ronde, 1959 ); translated by Hill as The Fighting Cock ( London: Methuen, 1967 ).

Le Solfège de l ’ Objet Sonore ( Music Theory of the Sound Object ), a sound recording that accompanied Traité des Objets Musicaux ( Treatise on Musical Objects ) by Pierre Schaeffer, was issued by ORTF ( French Broadcasting Authority ) as a long-playing record in 1967.

* Le Cannet, France ( Twinned May 26, 1967 )

* 1967 Le Masque ( Drawings by Saul Steinberg ).

In 1967, Le Mesurier starred in Henri Verneuil's French war picture, The 25th Hour, opposite Anthony Quinn and Virna Lisi.

* Le streghe ( 1967 ; segment " Senso civico ")

* Foyt is the only driver to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the Indianapolis 500 the same year ( 1967 ).