légende noire

French

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /le.ʒɑ̃d nwaʁ/

Noun

légende noire f (plural légendes noires)

  1. black legend (historiographical phenomenon in which a sustained trend in historical writing of biased reporting and introduction of fabricated, exaggerated and/or decontextualized facts is directed against particular persons, nations or institutions with the intention of creating a distorted and uniquely inhuman image of them)
    Coordinate term: légende dorée
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