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Re: Origin of "Belville" Name?
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Sun, 10 Feb 2002 06:38:52 GMT
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In lugnet.belville, Greg Perry writes:
> Is there any kind of official or rumored explanation as to the origin of the
> Belville name?
Hmm Belair? :p j/k...
well bel = Ten decibels.
Ville = village hahaha one loud village? maybe in colour!
Belle (french) = beautiful or an attractive girl/woman.
Latin - bella, feminine of bellus
I dunno it kinda makes sense when you put the Belle and the Ville together,
just like Lego with their name.
Belleville sounds a bit too much.... belville sounds a little better?
What do you reckon??
Mel
> This question occurred to me recently when I was looking through one of my
> M.C. Escher books for building ideas and (as I've done many times before)
> was checking out his work "Belvedere" as a potential idea.
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> For those not familiar with this work from Escher here's a pictue of it:
> http://www.worldofescher.com/gallery/Belvedere.html
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> Even though there are many standard, basic architectural shapes and features
> in this picture that are found in Belville and other LEGO sets, I'm not
> suggesting that this work was the direct inspiration for this theme. I think
> it was just the similarity in names that triggered the question in my mind.
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> So does anyone have any info or thoughts about where "Belville" came from?
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> Greg
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> P.S. For anyone who may not have seen it before and might be interested,
> here's a brick-based interpretation of Escher's "Relativity" that I built
> back in 2000: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=1538
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| (...) here's my take....and probably most sensible... :) most likely taken from french... meaning beautiful city belle ville ville is feminine in the french language, and beau = verb is belle with feminine objects... French Language 101... :) (...) (25 years ago, 10-Feb-02, to lugnet.belville)
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| Is there any kind of official or rumored explanation as to the origin of the Belville name? This question occurred to me recently when I was looking through one of my M.C. Escher books for building ideas and (as I've done many times before) was (...) (25 years ago, 1-Feb-02, to lugnet.belville)
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