SOLEIL SOLEIL SOLEIL ("Sun" in French) is a synchrotron facility near Paris, France. It performed its first acceleration of electrons on May 14, 2006. The name "SOLEIL" is a backronym for "Source optimisée de lumière d’énergie intermédiaire du LURE" (LURE optimised intermediary energy light source), LURE meaning "Laboratoire pour l'utilisation du rayonnement électromagnétique". The facility is run by a civil corporation held by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), two French national research agencies. It is located in Saint-Aubin in the Essonne département, a south-western suburb of Paris, near
Le Soleil (restaurant) Le Soleil (restaurant) Le Soleil is a Haitian restaurant located at 858 Tenth Avenue (between West 56th Street and West 57th Street) in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Le Soleil ("The Sun") was founded in 1973 by Rolande Bisserth, originally on 10th Avenue between 57 - 58th Streets in an area called "Bois Verna", named after a neighborhood in Port-au-Prince known for its ancient latticed houses, where New York's version once boasted bookstores, churches, cafés, and bodegas called "petit magasins". Its decor entails colorful primitive-style tropical landscapes decorated on peach-colored walls above brown wainscoting. It is