Café au lait is French for coffee with milk, and does sound rather like white coffee, which is simply coffee with added milk (or other whiteners, such as creamer). So what's the difference between the two then?
In café au lait, the milk is warm for one thing, which sounds not dissimilar to a latte, but again, that's a different drink. In normal white coffee, the milk is cold. In America, café au lait refers to a specific way of serving coffee.
In the US, café au lait uses French pressed or drip coffee as a base, rather than the espresso used in lattes, although in other countries, espresso is the drink used. The milk is warmed, rather than steamed, as it is in lattes.
So a café au lait uses warmed, but not steamed, milk, rather than cold.
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