He soon integrated with the artistic clientele of the Le Chat Noir Café-cabaret, and started publishing his Gymnopédies.

Desdichado's side is soon hard pressed and he himself beset by multiple foes, when a knight who had until then taken no part in the battle, thus earning the sobriquet Le Noir Faineant ( or the Black Sluggard ), rides to Desdichado's rescue.

In Stendhal's novel Le Rouge et le Noir ( 1830 ), there is a classic narcissist in the character of Mathilde.

In Book II chapter 28 of Stendhal's novel Le Rouge et le Noir, Julien and the woman he pretends to court, Madame de Fervaques, watch the opera Manon Lescaut while Julien is really thinking about his other lovers, Madame de Rênal and Mathilde de la Mole.

1896 advertisement for a tour of the first French cabaret show, Le Chat Noir.

" Shortly after it was founded, it was renamed Le Chat Noir ( The Black Cat ).

In the popular cabaret the Moulin Rouge, and at Le Chat Noir, artists, singers and performers regularly appeared including Yvette Guilbert, Marcelle Lender, Aristide Bruant, La Goulue, Georges Guibourg, Mistinguett, Fréhel, Jane Avril, Damia and others.

Théophile Steinlen's famous advertisement for the tour of Le Chat Noir cabaret

Composers, including Satie ( who was a pianist at Le Chat Noir ), also lived in the area.

* Le Rouge et le Noir ( 1997, by Jean-Daniel Verhaege ) – Mathilde de La Mole

* 1991: Noir tango (" Black Tango ", Fayard ) / 1993: Le Livre de Poche ( LGF )

Cros is seen for a few seconds at the Le Chat Noir in Paris, a café which opened in 1881 and had become the home for the avant-garde art scene of the time.

A French anarchist paper was published under the name Le Drapeau Noir ( The Black Flag ) from August 1883 for 17 issues before being suppressed by the French state.

He moved to Paris in around 1880, where his poetry won him a following and he began mixing with avant-garde literary society, and began publicly reciting his poems at Le Chat Noir.

The first, created for the Church of Satan by Wayne West in 1970, was entitled " Missa Solemnis " ( originally published only in pamphlet form, later published in Michael Aquino's history of The Church of Satan ), and the second, created by an unknown author, was entitled " Le Messe Noir " ( published in Anton LaVey's 1972 book The Satanic Rituals ).

* Hélène-Andrée Bizier, Le Noir et le Rouge

Black Sheep Inn / Le Mouton Noir

LaVeyan Satanists do not typically perform Black Mass as a regular ritual, though " Le Messe Noir " from Anton LaVey's work The Satanic Rituals does include some elements.

His most recent play, " Le Code Noir ", about the life of composer Joseph Boulogne, Le Chevalier de Saint Georges was produced by Black Theatre Workshop of Montreal, at the Segal Centre for the Performing Arts.

*" Le Code Noir " ( 2009 )

* Héros-Limite, Le Soleil Noir, Paris 1953 with an engraving and three drawings

* Le Chant de la carpe, Le Soleil Noir, Paris, 1973 with sonogram and sculpture by Kowalski

a stirring `` Flames Of Paris '' pas de deux by Xenia Ter-Stepanova and Alexandre Pavlovsky, and a lovely version of Fokine's `` Le Cygne '' by Olga Moiseyeva, which had to be repeated.

The first organized race was on April 28, 1887 by the chief editor of Paris publication Le Vélocipède, Monsieur Fossier.

The exposition of these ideas, encouraged by Widor and Munch, became Schweitzer's next task, and appeared in the masterly study J. S. Bach: Le Musicien-Poète, written in French and published in 1905.

It was in the age of absolute monarchy launched by Louix XIV in the 17th century that the likes of Poussin and Le Brun put France in the forefront of European art.

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

A third generation was led by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie ( 1929 – ) and includes Jacques Revel, and Philippe Ariès ( 1914 – 1984 ), who joined the group in 1978.

Braudel was editor of Annales from 1956 to 1968, followed by the medievalist Jacques Le Goff.

The most important was the study of the Peasants of Languedoc by Braudel's star pupil and successor Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie.

* Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, France, designed by Le Corbusier

* 1679 – The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.

This episode was taken up by the modern Turkish writer Nedim Gürsel and made into the setting of his 2001 novel Le voyage de Candide à Istanbul.

Caligula Depositing the Ashes of his Mother and Brother in the Tomb of his Ancestors, by Eustache Le Sueur, 1647,

Birth of Heracles by Jean Jacques Francois Le Barbier

While Grothendieck lived in Chambon, he attended the Collège Cévenol ( now known as the Le Collège-Lycée Cévenol International ), a unique secondary school founded in 1938 by local Protestant pacifists and anti-war activists.

The word ansible was coined by Ursula K. Le Guin in her 1966 novel Rocannon's World.

Salieri's first full opera was composed during the winter and carnival season of 1770 ; Le donne letterate and was based on Molière's Les Femmes Savantes ( The Learned Ladies ) with a libretto by Giovanni Gastone Boccherini a dancer in the court ballet, and a brother of the famous composer.

Following the modest success of Le donne letterate Salieri received new commissions writing two additional operas in 1770 both with libretti by Boccherini.

His best operas of this period are La Rosaura ( 1690, printed by the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung ), and Pirro e Demetrio ( 1694 ), in which occur the arias " Le Violette ", and " Ben ti sta, traditor ".

There was at the top of the Arc from 1882 to 1886, a monumental sculpture by Alexandre Falguière, " Le triomphe de la Révolution " ( the Triumph of the Revolution ), a chariot drawn by horses preparing " to crush Anarchy and Despotism ", that remained only four years up there before falling in ruins.

:* Le Départ de 1792 ' ( or La Marseillaise ), by François Rude

:* Le Triomphe de 1810, by Jean-Pierre Cortot

:* Le passage du pont d ' Arcole ( The Battle of Arcole ), by J. J. Feuchère ( NORTH façade, right ),

The castle was built between 1864 and 1879 on a cliff by the Atlantic ocean, and was designed by Viollet Le Duc in the Neo Gothic style.