Le, a large scattered village of Switzerland, canton of Neuchâtel, on the Bied, which here disappears in the chasm of a neighbouring rock, 10 miles W.N.W. of Neuchâtel, and 3 miles E. of the French frontier. Its inhabitants are chiefly employed in clock, watch, and lace making, and the manufacture of trinkets. Not far from the town is a tunnel, 950 feet long, which was excavated in 1806 for the purpose of relieving the valley of the superabundant water occasioned by the melted snow in spring. Pop. 8514.