légende noire
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French
Pronunciation
Noun
légende noire f (plural légendes noires)
- 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