Raison d'être
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Raison d'être (French pronunciation: [ʁɛzɔ̃ d‿ɛːtʁ]) is a French phrase meaning "reason for existence."
Raison d'être may also refer to:
- Raison d'être (band), a Swedish dark-ambient-industrial-drone music project
- Raison D'être (album), an album by Australian jazz fusion guitarist Frank Gambale
- "raison detre", a song by Japanese rock band Dir en grey on the album Gauze
- "Raison d'etre", a song by Japanese rock band Nightmare used as opening theme of the anime Claymore
- "Raison d'être", a song used as the ending theme of the Chobits anime by Japanese singer and voice actress Rie Tanaka
- "Raison d'etre", a song by British rock band Buzzcocks from the album A Different Kind of Tension
- "Raison d'être~交差する宿命~", a song by Tomosuke Funaki under the alias Zektbach for the video game Beatmania IIDX 17 SIRIUS
- Raison d'être, an American Ale brewed by Dogfish Head
- "Raison d'etre", a song by the Japanese band Kinbaku Shoujo