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Esperance (disambiguation) Esperance may refer to: * Esperance (town), New York * Esperance (village), New York * Esperance, Quartier Militaire (village), Quartier Militaire, Moka, Mauritius * Esperance, Washington * Esperance, Western Australia ** Goldfields–Esperance, a ...

'' Espérance is one of the two French words that can be translated into "hope", the other being "espoir". Whereas the latter is closer to the idea of "dream" or "fantasy" and corresponds to most of the common uses of "hope", "espérance" refers to an abstract, positive expectation. It is rarely used compared to its counterpart, except in the field of mathematics, where it refers to the

Expected value In probability theory, the expected value (also called expectation, expectancy, expectation operator, mathematical expectation, mean, expectation value, or first Moment (mathematics), moment) is a generalization of the weighted average. Informa ...

, and in religious texts. The name is used for organizations in many

Francophone The Francophonie or Francophone world is the whole body of people and organisations around the world who use the French language regularly for private or public purposes. The term was coined by Onésime Reclus in 1880 and became important a ...

countries. ;Places * Espérance, French Guiana, a village near Saint-du-Maroni, French Guiana * Espérance, Mauritius, a village in the district of Moka, Mauritius *

Esperance, Western Australia Esperance () is a town in the Goldfields–Esperance region of Western Australia, on the Southern Ocean coastline approximately east-southeast of the state capital, Perth and south of Kalgoorlie. The urban population of Esperance was 12,003 ...

, a town in Western Australia ;Union * Espérance Club, a trade union for girl dressmakers in 19th and early 20th century London, England ;Sports clubs *

Espérance Sportive de Tunis Espérance Sportive de Tunis (), known as ES Tunis or simply EST for short, is a Tunisian professional sports club founded on 15 January 1919 in the Bab Souika neighborhood of Tunis. Its football (soccer), football section has competed in th ...

, a football club in Tunisia * Espérance Sportive de Tunis (handball), the handball team of Espérance Sportive de Tunis * Espérance Sportive de Tunis (volleyball), the volleyball team of Espérance Sportive de Tunis * Espérance Sportive de Tunis (basketball), the basketball team of Espérance Sportive de Tunis * Espérance Football Club, Rwandan football club * Espérance Guider, Cameroonian football club * Espérance Sportive de Zarzis, Tunisian football club *

Espérance Sportive Troyes Aube Champagne Espérance Sportive Troyes Aube Champagne (ESTAC), commonly known as Troyes, is a French professional association football club based in Troyes that competes in Ligue 2. It plays its home matches at the Stade de l'Aube. Founded in 1986, it is ...

, French football club ;Ship * French ship ''Espérance'' (1781)