On July 23, 1894, the Parisian magazine Le Petit Journal organized what is considered to be the world's first motoring competition from Paris to Rouen.

Drawing of Death ( personification ) | Death bringing cholera, in Le Petit Journal ( 1912 )

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In 1928, he was put in charge of producing material for the new children's weekly supplement, Le XXe Siècle's, Le Petit Vingtième.

Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, by " Hergé ", appeared in the pages of Le Petit Vingtième on 10 January 1929, and ran until 8 May 1930.

In January 1930 Hergé introduced Quick & Flupke ( Quick et Flupke ), a new comic strip about two street urchins from Brussels, in the pages of Le Petit Vingtième.

The early Tintin adventures each took about a year to complete, after which they were released in book form by Le Petit Vingtième and, from 1934, by the Casterman publishing house.

Le Petit Vingtième, in which Tintin's adventures had until then been published, was shut down by the Nazi occupiers.

Firstly, paper shortages forced Tintin to be published in a daily three-or four-frame strip, rather than the two full pages every week which had been the practice on Le Petit Vingtième.

* 1946: Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, ballet by Roland Petit

Many newspapers, including Le Petit Parisien, announced the event on 25 May.

* Le Petit Robert: ' Zamenhof '.

Le Petit Journal illustration of the Courrières mine disaster

* January 10 – First appearance of Hergé's Belgian comic book hero Tintin as Tintin in the Land of the Soviets ( Les Aventures de Tintin, reporter ..., au pays des Soviets ), begins serialization in children's newspaper supplement Le Petit Vingtième.

Hervé's most famous works are the Gounod-parody Le Petit Faust ( 1869 ) and Mam ' zelle Nitouche ( 1883 ).

Newman reunited with Barbour in 2000 to compete in the Petit Le Mans.

Rallying itself can be traced back to the 1894 Paris – Rouen Horseless Carriage Competition ( Concours des Voitures sans Chevaux ), sponsored by a Paris newspaper, Le Petit Journal, which attracted considerable public interest and entries from leading manufacturers.

Towards the end of 1830, Gautier began to frequent meetings of Le Petit Cénacle Little Upper Room, a group of artists who met in the studio of Jehan Du Seigneur.

Le Petit Cénacle soon gained a reputation for extravagance and eccentricity, but also for being a unique refuge from society.

Icelandic singer Björk opened concerts on her 1995 – 1997 Post tour with " Le Petit Chevalier " from Desertshore.

During 2007 she would start concerts with " Le Petit Chevalier " from that record.

* Le Petit Monde de Don Camillo starring Gino Cervi directed by Julien Duvivier ( 1951 )

* Les Cévennes: Les Cévennes, Alco, Le Petit Bard, Pergola, Saint-Clément, Clémentville, Las Rebès, La Chamberte, La Martelle, Montpellier-Village, Les Grisettes, Les Grèzes.

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.

He was more successful as a journalist and published articles in Monde, a political / literary journal edited by Henri Barbusse, – his first article as a professional writer, La Censure en Angleterre, appeared in that journal on 6 October 1928 – G. K .' s Weekly – where his first article to appear in England, A Farthing Newspaper, was printed on 29 December 1928 – and Le Progrès Civique ( founded by the left-wing coalition Le Cartel des Gauches ).

The close-knit group included Haines and his partner Jimmie Shields, Alan Ladd, writer Somerset Maugham, director James Vincent, screenwriter Rowland Leigh, costume designers Orry-Kelly and Robert Le Maire, and actors John Darrow, Anderson Lawler, Grady Sutton, Robert Seiter and Tom Douglas.

A writer in Le Quotidien de Paris wrote: " The much-feared pyramid has become adorable.

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier (; October 6, 1887 – August 27, 1965 ), was an architect, designer, urbanist, and writer, famous for being one of the pioneers of what is now called modern architecture.

In 1919, a few months after the end of the war, the 20-year-old aspiring writer arrived in Paris and found jobs as a prompter at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier and as a journalist for various publications, including the major daily newspaper, Le Figaro.

Italian writer Luigi Malerba used the confusion among the leaders of the Catholic Church, which was created by Adrian's unexpected election, as a backdrop for his 1995 novel, Le maschere ( The Masks ), about the struggle between two Roman cardinals for a well-endowed church office.

A 2001 book by Quebec nationalist writer Normand Lester, Le Livre noir du Canada anglais ( later translated as The Black Book of English Canada ) accused Bennett of having a political affiliation with, and of having provided financial support to, fascist Quebec writer Adrien Arcand.

" In her much reprinted essay " Science Fiction and Mrs Brown ," the science fiction writer Ursula K. Le Guin has approached an answer by first citing the essay written by the English author Virginia Woolf entitled " Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown " in which she states:

Le Guin argues that these criteria may be successfully applied to works of science fiction and so answers in the affirmative her rhetorical question posed at the beginning of her essay: " Can a science fiction writer write a novel?

* 1909 – The Phantom of the Opera ( original title: Le Fantôme de l ' Opéra ), a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux, is first published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.

Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu ( 28 August 1814 – 7 February 1873 ) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels.

In Dorothy L. Sayers's novel Gaudy Night, set in 1935, the main character Harriet Vane, a crime fiction writer, covers her investigation on a mystery case at her fictional Oxford college, Shrewsbury, with research on Sheridan Le Fanu.

Sir Thomas Malory ( c. 1405 – 14 March 1471 ) was an English writer, the author or compiler of Le Morte d ' Arthur.

* Sir Thomas Malory ( – March 14, 1471 ) was an English writer, the author or compiler of Le Morte d ' Arthur.

* February 7 – Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer ( b. 1814 )

* August 28 – Sheridan Le Fanu, Irish writer ( d. 1873 )

* November 17 – Alain-René Le Sage, Algonqian writer ( b. 1668 )

The grandfather paradox is a proposed paradox of time travel first described ( in this exact form ) by the science fiction writer René Barjavel in his 1943 book Le Voyageur Imprudent ( Future Times Three ).

For much of the 17th century, Pierre Corneille, who made his mark on the world of tragedy with plays like Medée ( 1635 ) and Le Cid ( 1636 ), was the most successful writer of French tragedies.

* Sheridan Le Fanu ( 1814 – 1873 ), Irish novelist and short-story writer