Heywood Broun wrote: `` Belle Poitrine is the most original thinker since Caligula '', and even F.D.R. had to concede that `` if the rest of this nation showed the foresight and patriotism of Miss Poitrine, America would rapidly resemble ancient Babylon and Nineveh ''.

In a news update to the official website on 11 August 2010, it was revealed that their eighth studio album would be titled Belle & Sebastian Write About Love.

Before the end of 2008, Jeepster would also release another Belle & Sebastian compilation, The BBC Sessions, collecting the tracks that the band had recorded for the BBC in 1996, which included rarities and unreleased songs, together with live recordings from Belfast.

On 31 October 2008, Libya paid $ 1. 5 billion, sought through donations from private businesses, to a fund that would be used to compensate both US victims of the 1988 bombing of Pan Am flight 103 and the 1986 bombing of the La Belle disco in Germany.

During pre-production, MGM had announced that Jean Harlow, who was under contract to that studio, would be loaned to 20th Century Fox to star in the role Belle Fawcett.

Belle hid upstairs and overheard Shields mentioning that he had been ordered east, a move that would reduce the Union Army's strength at Front Royal.

In 2009, the City of Belle Isle established its own police department, which would take over the area's jurisdiction from the Orange County Sheriff.

The Climax post office, renamed from Belle Grove in 1873, moved several miles east in 1879 into what would later be the town, the same year a railroad was constructed through the site.

Knowing the cattle barons and the railroad would need a point at which to load the herds of cattle onto freight cars for shipment to the packing plants in the midwest, Seth Bullock provided a solution and became the parent, in effect, of Belle Fourche, the city.

Seth offered the railroad free right-of-way and offered to build the terminal if the railroad would locate it at a point on his land near where the present Belle Fourche Livestock Exchange exists.

This was the start of the agriculture center of the Tri-State area for which Belle Fourche would become known.

The core group that would develop what we today know as parcours, parkour, L ' art du déplacement and freerunning were: Châu Belle Dinh, David Belle, Williams Belle, Yann Hnautra, Sébastien Foucan, Laurent Pietmontesi, Guylain N ' Guba Boyeke, Malik Diouf, and Charles Perriére.

Belle always harbored a strong sense of style, which would feed into her later legend.

In January 1983 the Belle Stars released what would be their signature single, " Sign of the Times ", peaking at number three, and a chart success throughout Europe.

Forte would prefer to remain as an ornament than be released by Belle, enjoying his manipulation over the Beast's anger.

He would go on to hit 13 homers in 16 games, a mark that would stand until Albert Belle matched it in.

Clarke and Mee would collaborate again in Belle Époque ( 2004 ).

John Harding continued to acquire surrounding land that he would later rename Belle Meade.

Stuart Murdoch of Belle & Sebastian featured on the album Philophobia, but the Belle & Sebastian album / song " The Boy with the Arab Strap " would later create something of a feud between the two singers.

Jazz, Belle, & Tina would be able to defend the belts under the " Freebird rule " where any 2 of the three could compete.

Kathryn Lee Seidel, in her book, The Southern Belle in the American Novel, wrote:

Melanie declares she will acknowledge Belle when she passes her in the street, but Belle tells her not to.

James Madison, Jr. was born at Belle Grove Plantation near Port Conway, Virginia on March 16, 1751, ( March 5, 1751, Old Style, Julian calendar ), where his mother had returned to her parents ' home to give birth.

Her father, Eugene Muse Mitchell, was an attorney, and her mother, Mary Isabel " May Belle " ( or " Maybelle ") Stephens, was a suffragist.

May Belle Stephens had studied at the Bellevue Convent in Quebec and completed her education at the Atlanta Female Institute.

The Atlanta Constitution reported that May Belle Stephens and Eugene Mitchell were married at her father's mansion on November 8, 1892:

May Belle Mitchell gave her children advice on drinking and sex in a time when such things were " done but not spoken of ", recalled Mitchell's brother Stephens.

May Belle Mitchell kept her daughter's stories in white enamel bread boxes and there were several boxes of her stories stored in the Mitchell home by the time she went off to college.

However, May Belle Mitchell placed a high value on education for women and she wanted her daughter's future accomplishments to come from using her mind.

On January 25, 1919, her mother, May Belle Mitchell, succumbed to pneumonia from the " Spanish flu ".

Knowing her death was imminent, May Belle Mitchell wrote her daughter a brief letter and advised her:

She gained recognition for her portrayal of aloof and mysterious beauties in films such as Repulsion ( 1965 ) and Belle de jour ( 1967 ).

Further prominent films from this early time in her career included Roman Polanski's suspense classic Repulsion ( 1965 ) and Luis Buñuel's Belle de Jour ( 1967 )— as the haut-bourgeois housewife who achieves sexual satisfaction working in a Parisian brothel.

She is considered the muse of designer Yves Saint Laurent ; he dressed her in the films Belle de Jour, La Chamade,

Following this Binoche secured her first feature film appearance with a minor role in Pascal Kané's Liberty Belle ( 1983 ).

Belle and Dion separate when Jack asks her to support him.

When he realises Belle might testify against him, Dion asks her to marry him, making her testimony inadmissible.

On March 16, 1751, James Madison, the fourth President of the United States, was born in Port Conway in southern King George County at Belle Grove plantation, the childhood home of his mother, Eleanor Rose " Nellie " Conway, the daughter of its owner, Francis Conway, for whom Port Conway was named.

'" Still, two race riots during her childhood — in 1942 when the Sojourner Truth housing project was desegregated, and one the following year on Belle Isle — made up what Shabazz later called the " psychological background for my formative years ".

Artists that appealed to the Belle Époque public include William-Adolphe Bouguereau or the British John William Waterhouse, or the idyllic Roman scenes of Lord Leighton.

In Village of Belle Terre v. Boraas, the United States Supreme Court, in an opinion written by Justice William O. Douglas, held that it was constitutional to forbid more than two people unrelated by blood, adoption, or marriage — not counting household servants — from living and cooking together as a single housekeeping unit in the village for the purpose of maintaining a quiet residential sector, a legitimate state interest.

Two devastating world wars and their aftermath made the Belle Epoque appear to be a time of joie de vivre ( joy of living ) in contrast to 20th century hardships.

He remained commandant of Detroit until his death on 11 April 1803, living in a house on land that is now Gabriel Richard Park near the present bridge to Belle Isle.

He also launched an appeal to all Americans living in Britain, requesting them to give generously by means of subscription to a fund, raising money to provide for the widows and orphans of the nine-man crew of the Margate lugger “ Victory ”, which was lost with all hands going to the aid of the “ Northern Belle ” ( Lapthorne ).

According to Ludwell Lee Montague's foot notes " Portraits of famous " Belle Meade " stallions adorn Jackson's living room in Tucson, Arizona ", along with personally autographed pictures of Presidents Truman and Eisenhower, among other memorabilia.

Durkin's elder sister Sarah Belle Farrow died under suspect conditions in March 1970 while living with her sister in Durkin's spacious Lakewood home.