Noir

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Noir (or noire) is the French word for black. It may refer to:

Persons

• Jim Noir, musician
• Ricardo Noir, Boca Juniors football player.

Places

• Montagne Noire, a mountain range in southwestern France
• La Roche-Noire, a village and commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department of central France
• Noire River, in Quebec, Canada
• Pointe-Noire, Guadeloupe
• Pointe-Noire District in the Republic of the Congo
  • Pointe-Noire, second largest city in the Republic of the Congo
  • Pointe-Noire Bay, bay at Pointe-Noire
  • Pointe Noire Airport, airport of Pointe-Noire

Literature, arts, and entertainment

• Film noir, a film genre
• Noir fiction, another name for "hardboiled" crime fiction.
• Noir, the second full-length album by post-metal band Callisto
• Noir (anime), an anime series, as well as an entity in it
• Noir, a novel by K. W. Jeter
• Guy Noir, a recurring character (in a segment of the same title) on A Prairie Home Companion, which parodies the typical film noir detective
• Noir Pictures, an independent film company in Honolulu, Hawaii.
• Vince Noir, a character played by Noel Fielding in the BBC Television comedy The Mighty Boosh
• Noir, a character in the video game La Pucelle: Tactics
• Noir, the alias of Ray Balzac Courland in Gorgeous Carat
• Folk noir, music genre.
• Magie Noire, a cartoon by the Ivorian painter and author Gilbert G. Groud
• Série noire, a French publishing imprint
• Souris noire, a French television series
• Tech noire, a specific term for a style of experimental music
• "Para-noir", a track on Marilyn Manson's 2003 album, The Golden Age of Grotesque.

Other

• La Legion Noire (The black Legion), a military unit of the French Revolutionary Army
• Mondeuse Noire, a red wine grape grown primarily in the Savoy region of France
• Pinot noir, a French wine
• Royale Noir, a Windows XP theme
• L.A. Noire, a video game by Rockstar Games

[edit] See also

• Bande noire disambiguation
• Bête noire disambiguation

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