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| English | French |
| in Le Havre | au Havre |
| ‘Le Cid’ | ‘le Cid’ (Corneille) |
| Le Havre | Le Havre |
| Le Mans | Le Mans |
| main character in Molière's 'le Bourgeois Gentilhomme' 1670 | Monsieur Jourdain (who takes lessons in his attempt to become a gentleman; best remembered for his amazed discovery that he has been speaking prose all his life) |
| the hero of Stendhal's 'le Rouge et le Noir' | Julien Sorel (a working-class intellectual exasperated with the bourgeois mediocrity around him) |
| the Le Mans 24-hour race | les 24 Heures du Mans |
| you can go via Le Mans | tu peux prendre par Le Mans |