* 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.

In July of that year, the airline inaugurated the world's first air ferry service across the English Channel between Lympne Airport and Le Touquet Airport.

The Le Pluviôse monument was inaugurated on 22 June 1913.

argues the work of Edgar Allan Poe and Sheridan Le Fanu inaugurated the

A French edition was inaugurated in 2012 named Le Militant.

It was during this time that he followed closely the work of the main driving force behind the new modernism, Le Corbusier, and visited him in his Paris office several times in the following years.

It could be said that Aalto's international reputation was sealed with his inclusion in the second edition of Sigfried Giedion's influential book on Modernist architecture, Space, Time and Architecture: The growth of a new tradition ( 1949 ), in which Aalto received more attention than any other Modernist architect, including Le Corbusier.

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

In 2002, a new survey was carried out on board the Ifremer RV Le Suroit for BlaSON project ( Lericolais, et al., 2003 ) completed the multibeam mapping of this underwater channel fan-delta.

Le Petomane ( Mel Brooks ) appoint a new sheriff.

In 1971, SLON made Le Train en marche, a new prologue to Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin's 1935 film Schastye, which had recently been re-released in France.

** Note: This was edited by Marker essentially, this film is a 27-minute postscript to Le Joli Mai assembled from leftover footage and organized around a new commentary ( Film Comment ).

Instead of a mere reproduction of the Cyclopaedia, he persuaded Le Breton to enter upon a new work, which would collect all the active writers, ideas, and knowledge that were moving the cultivated class of the Republic of Letters to its depths but were comparatively ineffectual due to their dispersion.

He wrote sentimental plays, Le Fils naturel ( 1757 ) and Le Père de famille ( 1758 ), accompanying them with essays on theatrical theory and practice, including " Les Entretiens sur Le Fils Naturel " ( Conversations on The Natural Son ), in which he announced the principles of a new drama: the ' serious genre ', a realistic midpoint between comedy and tragedy that stood in opposition to the stilted conventions of the classical French stage.

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

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.

However, Hergé accepted an offer to produce a new Tintin strip in Le Soir, Brussels ' leading French daily, which had been appropriated as the mouthpiece of the occupation forces.

Senator Philip Le Feuvre topped the poll in 1948 on a platform of implementing Social SecurityThe first election under the new constitution saw a struggle for dominance between the Jersey Democratic Movement and the Jersey Progressive Party, led by Cyril Le Marquand.

In 2004, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin chose Lens to be the site of the new building, called Le Louvre-Lens.

In this new industrial spirit, Le Corbusier contributed to a new journal called L ' Esprit Nouveau that advocated the use of modern industrial techniques and strategies to transform society into a more efficient environment with a higher standard of living on all socioeconomic levels.

It caused Escoffier to note when he was asked to write the preface that he could " see with my own eyes ," and " Montagné cannot hide from me the fact that he has used Le Guide as a basis for his new book, and certainly used numerous recipes.

The term was applied by Pincus-Whitten to the work of Eva Hesse, Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra and new work by former minimalists Robert Smithson, Robert Morris, and Sol LeWitt, and Barry Le Va, and others.

Le Verrier predicted the position of this new planet and sent his calculations to German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.

Lastly, in 1981 Porsche entered 1 of 2 specially built 924 Carrera GTP's ( Aka: 944GTP Le Mans ) which Porsche Motorsports introduced a new prototype highly modified 2. 5 liter I4 engine.