Le jour se lève ([lə ʒuʁ sə lɛv], "The day rises"; also known as Daybreak) is a 1939 French film directed by Marcel Carné and written by Jacques Prévert, based on a story by Jacques Viot.

François fell in love with her and hoped to marry her, but she turned him down in order to have a relationship with the older Valentin, a narcissistic, manipulative dog trainer.

One day, Valentin told François that he was in fact Françoise's father; she was the product of a youthful dalliance.

In 1947, it was again suppressed when RKO Radio Pictures wanted to remake the film in Hollywood (as The Long Night).

For a time it was feared that they had been successful and that the film was lost, but it re-appeared in the 1950s and has subsequently stood alongside Les Enfants du paradis as one of the finest achievements of the partnership of Carné and Prévert.

[6] This version reinstates dialogue and shots (including a nude Arletty) that had been deleted by Vichy censors.