légende noire
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
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