A deluge is a large downpour of rain, often a

flood A flood is an overflow of water (list of non-water floods, or rarely other fluids) that submerges land that is usually dry. In the sense of "flowing water", the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. Floods are of significant con ...

. The Deluge refers to the flood narrative in the biblical book of Genesis. Deluge or Le Déluge may also refer to:

History

Deluge (history) The Deluge was a series of mid-17th-century military campaigns in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In a wider sense, it applies to the period between the Khmelnytsky Uprising of 1648 and the Truce of Andrusovo in 1667, comprising the Po ...

, the Swedish and Russian invasion of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (1654–1667) *

Deluge (prehistoric) In geomorphology, an outburst flood—a type of megaflood—is a high-magnitude, low-frequency catastrophic flood involving the sudden release of a large quantity of water. During the last deglaciation, numerous glacial lake outburst floods wer ...

, prehistoric great floods, some of which may have inspired deluge myths *

Après moi, le déluge "" (; ) is a French expression attributed to King Louis XV of France, or in the form "" (; ) to Madame de Pompadour, his favourite.Mould 2011 p. 43.OUP-Lexico 2020. It is generally regarded as a nihilistic expression of indifference to w ...

(lit. 'After me, the flood'), a French expression attributed to King Louis XV of France in 1757

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

* ''Deluge'' (film), a 1933 apocalyptic science fiction film loosely based on the S. Fowler Wright novel * ''The Deluge'' (film), a 1974 Polish film based on the Sienkiewicz novel * ''Le Déluge'' (film) or ''The Flood'', a 2024 French-Italian historical drama film

Literature

* ''Deluge'' (novel), a 1928 novel by S. Fowler Wright *''Deluge'', a 2008 novel by

Anne McCaffrey Anne Inez McCaffrey (1 April 1926 – 21 November 2011) was an American writer known for the ''Dragonriders of Pern'' science fiction series. She was the first woman to win a Hugo Award for fiction (Best Novella, ''Weyr Search'', 1968) an ...

and Elizabeth Anne Sarborough * ''Le Déluge'' (Le Clézio), a fictional work by J. M. G. Le Clézio. * ''The Deluge'' (Tooze book), a 2014 book by Adam Tooze * ''The Deluge'' (novel), ''Potop'', an 1886 novel by Nobel Prize winner Henryk Sienkiewicz about the historical event *''The Deluge'', a 1954 pastiche story credited to Leonardo da Vinci, actually written by Robert Payne *''The Deluge'', a 2007 novel by Mark Morris *''The Deluge'', a 2023 novel about dystopian climate change by Stephen Markley

Music

*''Deluge'', a 1997 album by

Jocelyn Pook Jocelyn Pook (, rhyming with "book") (born 14 February 1960) is an English composer who is known for her scores for many films, including ''Eyes Wide Shut'', ''The Merchant of Venice'' and '' The Wife''. Her principal instrument is the viola. ...

* ''Le Déluge'' (Saint-Saëns), an 1875 oratorio by Camille Saint-Saëns * ''The Deluge'' (Manilla Road album), 1986 * ''The Deluge'' (Fanning Dempsey National Park album), 2024

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* ''The Deluge'' (painting), an 1805 painting by J.M.W. Turner *

Deluge (fine art photography) David LaChapelle (born March 11, 1963) is an American photographer, music video director, and film director. He is best known for his work in fashion and photography, which often references art history and sometimes conveys social messages. His ...

, a museum exhibit by David LaChapelle *

Deluge (Transformers) The Autobots are a fictional faction of sentient robots in the ''Transformers'' multimedia franchise. The Autobots are living robots from the planet Cybertron who, like most Transformers, are each imbued with a unique "life force" known as a "s ...

, several Transformers characters *''The Deluge'', a painting by

Winifred Knights Winifred Margaret Knights (5 June 1899 – 7 February 1947) was a British painter. Amongst her most notable works are ''The Marriage at Cana'' produced for the British School at Rome, which is now in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa a ...

* "The Deluge" (''Knots Landing''), a 1985 television episode

Firefighting

* ''Deluge'' (fireboat), several vessels *A type of

fire sprinkler system A fire sprinkler system is an active fire protection method, consisting of a water supply system providing adequate pressure and flowrate to a water distribution piping system, to which fire sprinklers are connected. Although initially used on ...

Deluge gun A deluge gun, fire monitor, master stream or deck gun is an aimable controllable high-capacity water jet used for manual firefighting or automatic fire protection Fire protection is the study and practice of mitigating the unwanted effects of ...

, equipment used in firefighting

Other uses

Le Déluge Le Déluge () is a former commune in the Oise department in northern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune La Drenne.Deluge (software) Deluge BitTorrent Client is a free and open-source software, free and open-source, cross-platform BitTorrent client written in Python (programming language), Python. Deluge uses a front and back end architecture where libtorrent, a software li ...

, a cross-platform BitTorrent client written using Python and GTK *

Deluge Fountain The Deluge Fountain is a monumental sculpture fountain which has stood with all its elements between 1904 and 1943 and since 2014 in Bydgoszcz. Throughout the first time of its existence (39 years) and since its rebuilding, the fountain has always ...

, in Bydgoszcz, Poland * Deluge Mountain, a summit in Canada