He rose through the ranks to become Le Club's tuxedo-clad maître d'hôtel and ultimately its executive director.
But do you really think that Walmart is going to become Le Magasin Walmart just for your shoppers?
Other teams have changed out of white uniforms: France and Italy swapped theirs for blue and went on to become Les Bleus and Gli Azzurri.
Then they become les fleurs du mal, insidious species that spread their pods and twining tentacles into every corner of the state and beyond.
Les Bleus will become Les Rouges against Scotland at Stade de France on Saturday rather than wearing their usual second choice of white.
To his fellow "lotus-eaters" he's become le grand solitaire, whose sadness oppresses them.
Marine Le Pen still has a powerful base on which to build but these figures suggest that the Front National remains far short of winning the 50 per cent national majority that she needs to become Presidente Le Pen in 2017.
He found relief above all in working on a new novel, which became Les Misérables, published in 1862 after work on it had been set aside for a time and then resumed.
Sylvie Kauffmann, the first woman to become editor of Le Monde, wrote in an editorial that "suddenly tongues are untied," and women are sharing stories of sexual harassment.
Suleiman writes that, originally, Denise Epstein and Élisabeth Gille had planned to write a more conventional biography of their mother together; this became "Le Mirador," to which Denise contributed archival material and notes.
They dropped the 'Le', to become Hoodoo Gurus, not long after the single's release.
