(French for ''Star of the North'', i.e. the

North Star Polaris is a star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Minor. It is designated α Ursae Minoris ( Latinized to ''Alpha Ursae Minoris'') and is commonly called the North Star or Pole Star. With an apparent magnitude t ...

) may refer to: *

L'Étoile du Nord ''L'Étoile du Nord'' is a French language, French phrase meaning "The Star of the North". It is the List of U.S. state mottos, motto of the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the only U.S. state motto in French. It was chosen by the state's first gov ...

, the motto of the U.S. state of Minnesota * ''

L'étoile du nord ' (''The North Star'') is an opéra comique in three acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer. The French-language libretto was by Eugène Scribe. The work had its first performance at the Opéra-Comique, Paris, on 16 February 1854. Much of the material, incl ...

'', an 1854 opéra comique in three acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer * "L'Étoile du Nord", a short story by the francophone Belgian writer

Georges Simenon Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (; 12/13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer who created the fictional detective Jules Maigret. One of the most prolific and successful authors of the 20th century, he published around 400 ...

* ''L'Étoile du Nord'' (film), a 1982 French film directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre and based on the short story by Georges Simenon * ''Étoile du Nord'' (train), which ran between Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam * LGV Étoile du Nord, former name of a proposed high-speed rail line now known as LGV Picardie * Theâtre de l'Étoile du Nord, a theatre in the centre of Tunis, Tunisia * Etoile De Nord, a 19th-century racehorse sired by The Baron

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