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