Belle et Sébastien

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For the band, see Belle & Sebastian

Belle et Sébastien, is a series of French novels by Cécile Aubry and is about the mountain-based adventures of a young boy and his dog, a Great Pyrenees, in a small village in the Pyrenees Mountains, a mountain range between France and Spain. Sebastian lived with his grandfather and aunt in Spain and one day, he and Belle set out to cross the Pyrenees to get to France to find his mother, a Rom. The series, better known in the Anglosphere as Belle and Sebastian, was later made into a live-action television series in the late 1960s, and an anime version nearly two decades later.

1 Other adaptations
- 1.1 Belle et Sébastien (1965-1970)
- 1.2 Meiken Jolie (1981)
2 Trivia
3 External links

[edit] Other adaptations

[edit] Belle et Sébastien (1965-1970)

The live action show, filmed in black-and-white, was broadcast from 1965 to 1970. In 1967, it was dubbed and the title was Anglicized to Belle and Sebastian and first appeared on British television's BBC2 in the morning, with an initial airing date of October 2, 1967 and its initial run concluded on January 1, 1968. Shown in the time slot after Blue Peter, this dubbed French adventure soon became an essential ingredient of school holiday television.

[edit] Meiken Jolie (1981)

Main article: Meiken Jolie

Sebastian and Belle

The anime version, released initially under its Japanese name of Meiken Jolie, was created in 1980, a joint production of France's MK Company and Visual 80 Productions and Japan's Toho Company, Ltd., with animation director Toshiyuki Kashiwakura helming the project and character designs from Shuichi Seki. The show was broadcast on French and Japanese television in 1981, with American cable network Nickelodeon picking it up in 1984.

[edit] Trivia

The Scottish band Belle & Sebastian took their name from the earlier TV series.
The part of Sébastien in the TV series was played by Mehdi El Glaoui, Cécile Aubry's son from her marriage to a Moroccan prince. Mehdi also sings the final song, L'Oiseau (lyrics: http://www.paroles.net/chansons/11493.htm).