51-600: Bella is a feminine given name. It is a diminutive form of names ending in -bella. Bella is related to the Italian, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese and Latin words for beautiful, and to the name Belle , meaning beautiful in French. It increased in usage following the publication of the Twilight books by Stephenie Meyer . It is also known for being a nickname to Isabella, Annabella or Arabella. Belle (given name) From Misplaced Pages,
102-551: A Romani fortune-teller's prophecy about his youngest daughter making his household lucky. Once they arrive at the castle, the Beast receives Beauty with great ceremony. The merchant is sent home with a reward. The Beast gives Beauty lavish clothing and food, along with animal servants, and carries on lengthy conversations with her. She notes that he is inclined to stupidity rather than savagery. Every night he asks Beauty to marry him , and she refuses. After each proposal Beauty dreams of
153-543: A beggar and could only be disenchanted by a poor but kind-hearted maiden. Unlike in Beaumont's version, it is not mentioned that the protagonist's sisters are punished at the end. The tale is popular in the Italian oral tradition. Christian Schneller [ de ] collected a variant from Trentino titled The Singing, Dancing and Music-making Leaf (German: Vom singenden, tanzenden und musicirenden Blatte ; Italian: La foglia, che canta, che balla e che suona ) in which
204-516: A fire, along with his belongings, forcing him and his family to move to their country home in the forest. His ships are lost at sea, captured by pirates, etc., except one, which returns later. Unlike the other two versions, the sisters in Lang's story are not jealous of Beauty. Also, Lang maintained the lavish descriptions of the Beast's palace. This version in particular is one of the most commonly told, along with those of Villeneuve and Beaumont. This version
255-674: A greedy couple to kill the Princess . When the King of the Fortunate Island believed both his wife and daughter to be dead, he banished the Evil Fairy. But the Good Fairy had secretly rescued her infant niece. She had turned into a bear and killed the would-be murderers. The Good Fairy then brought the Princess to a cottage with three sleeping nursesmaids and a baby girl the same age as her. The baby
306-412: A handsome Prince with whom she begins to fall in love, along with an apparition of a fairy who tells her not to be deceived by appearances. For several months Beauty lives a life of luxury at the Beast's castle. Eventually she becomes homesick and begs the Beast to allow her to go see her family again. He allows it on the condition that she returns exactly two months later. Beauty agrees to this and
357-490: A handsome Prince whom she falls in love with, and a fairy who tells her not to judge appearances. Eventually, Beauty misses her family and wishes to return home. The Beast allows it on the condition that she comes back in a certain time. She does go home, but upon staying there she has a nightmare of the Beast dying alone, and hurries back to the castle to see that it is true. Beauty realizes that she has fallen in love with him and agrees to marry him at last. When she accepts,
408-429: A living. While Beauty makes a firm resolution to adjust to rural life with a cheerful disposition, her sisters do not and mistake her determination for stupidity. Two years later, the merchant hears that one of his trade ships has returned. Before leaving to retrieve it, and possibly their fortune, he asks his children if they wish for him to bring any gifts back for them. His oldest daughters ask for clothing, jewels, and
459-467: A rose garden and recalls that Beauty had desired a rose. The merchant quickly plucks the loveliest rose he can find. He is then confronted by a hideous "Beast" who tries to kill him for stealing his most precious possession even after accepting his hospitality. The merchant begs to be let go, revealing that he had only picked the rose as a gift for his youngest daughter. The Beast agrees to let him go, but only if he brings one of his daughters back to live with
510-416: A snowstorm, and finds shelter in a castle with food seemingly laid out by an invisible host who welcomes him to stay. The next morning he finds a rose garden outside and plucks one to bring to his daughter. A horrible Beast appears and tries to kill the merchant for stealing from him after accepting his food and safe haven. After hearing that the rose is a gift, the Beast agrees to let him go on one condition:
561-416: A terrible price, before relaying what had happened during his absence. Her brothers say that they will go to the castle and fight the Beast, while his older daughters refuse to leave and place blame on Beauty, urging her to right her own wrong. The merchant dissuades them, forbidding his children from ever going near the Beast. Beauty willingly decides to go to the Beast's castle, moving her father who remembers
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#1732852132593612-526: A variant from Montale titled Bellindia , in which Bellindia is the heroine's name, while her two eldest sisters are called Carolina and Assunta. Vittorio Imbriani [ it ] included a version titled Zelinda and the Monster ( Zelinda e il Mostro ), in which the heroine, called Zelinda, asks for a rose in January. Instead of going to visit her family, staying longer than she promised, and then returning to
663-427: A version from Rome titled The Enchanted Rose-Tree where the heroine does not have any sisters. Antonio De Nino collected a variant from Abruzzo , in eastern Italy, that he also titled Bellindia , in which instead of a rose, the heroine asks for a golden carnation. Instead of a seeing it on a magic mirror, or knowing about it because the Beast tells her, here Bellinda knows what happens in her father's house because in
714-418: Is described as having a mastiff jaw, a lizard 's back legs, and a salamander 's body. The ending is closer to Villeneuve's and Beaumont's versions with Rose rushing back to the castle and finding the Beast lying dying beside a fountain. When the Beast asks if she knows that he can't live without her, Rose answers yes, and the Beast turns into a human. He explains to Rose that he was a prince cursed for mocking
765-617: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Beauty and the Beast " Beauty and the Beast " is a fairy-tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins ( The Young American and Marine Tales ). Villeneuve's lengthy version was abridged, rewritten, and published by French novelist Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont in 1756 in Magasin des enfants ( Children's Collection ) to produce
816-458: Is given leave to remain there for a week, and when she arrives, her sisters feign fondness to entice her to remain another week in hopes that the Beast will devour her in anger. Again, she returns to him dying and restores his life. The two then marry and live happily ever after. A variant of Villeneuve's version appears in Andrew Lang 's The Blue Fairy Book . The Merchant's mansion is burned in
867-487: Is happening. When she finally does, the castle crumbles and the wolf dies. Henri Pourrat collected a version from Auvergne in south-central France, titled Belle Rose (sometimes translated in English as Lovely Rose ). In this version, the heroine and her sisters are the daughters of a poor peasant and are named after flowers, the protagonist being Rose and her sisters Marguerite (Daisy) and Julianne, respectively. The Beast
918-433: Is presented with an enchanted ring, which allows her to wake up in her family's new home in an instant. Her older sisters are surprised to find her well-fed and dressed in finery, and their old jealousy quickly flares when their suitors' gazes turn to Beauty, even though she bestows lavish gifts on them. Her brothers do all they can to prevent her from going back to his castle, and she reluctantly agrees to stay longer. When
969-400: The youngest , Beauty, is the loveliest. Beauty is also kind and pure of heart; her elder sisters, in contrast, are cruel, selfish, and jealous of Beauty. The merchant and his children become poor when their house burns down, and his ships are either in a storm at sea or from being robbed by pirates . The family of thirteen is forced to move to a small cottage in the countryside and work for
1020-517: The American Civil War Belle Hunt Shortridge (1858–1893), American author Ruth Isabel Belle Skinner (1866–1928), American businesswoman Belle Starr (1848–1889), American outlaw born Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr Belle Story (c. 1887–?), American vaudeville performer and singer Belle Fligelman Winestine (1891–1985) American writer and suffragist Fictional characters [ edit ] Belle, from
1071-623: The Beast has transformed into the Prince from her dreams. This is followed by the arrival of the Fairy who had previously advised her, along with a woman she does not recognize. The woman turns out to be the Prince's mother the Queen whose joy quickly falters when she finds out that Beauty is not of noble birth. The Fairy chastises the Queen and reveals that Beauty is actually a Princess and their niece. Her birth father
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#17328521325931122-435: The Beast instead. He makes it clear that she must agree while under no illusions about her predicament. The merchant is upset, but accepts this condition for the sake of his own life. The Beast sends him on his way with wealth, jewels, and fine clothes for his sons and daughters, and stresses that he must not lie to his daughters. Upon arriving home, the merchant hands Beauty the rose she requested and informs her that it had
1173-480: The Beast takes the form of a snake . Instead of going to visit her family alone, the heroine can only go to her sister's wedding if she agrees to let the snake go with her. During the wedding, they dance together, and when the girl kicks the snake's tail, he turns into a beautiful youth, who is the son of a count . Sicilian folklorist Giuseppe Pitrè collected a variant from Palermo titled Rusina 'Mperatrici ( The Empress Rosina ). Domenico Comparetti included
1224-485: The Beast transforms into the Prince from her dreams. The fairy from them appears as well. It is revealed that she had been sending Beauty the dreams in the first place, after an evil fairy had cursed the Prince to always remain a beast unless he earned someone's love. Beauty and the Prince are married, and live happily ever after. A widowed merchant lives in a mansion in a city with his twelve children: six sons and six daughters. All his daughters are very beautiful, but
1275-431: The Beast" was "an older form" of the animal husband narrative, and that subtypes 425A, "Animal as Bridegroom", and 425B, "The Disenchanted Husband: The Witch's Tasks", were secondary developments, with motifs incorporated into the narrative. The tale is one of the most popular in oral tradition. Emmanuel Cosquin collected a version with a tragic ending from Lorraine titled The White Wolf ( Le Loup blanc ), in which
1326-838: The CBS sitcom Alice Belle Taylor , from the Seven Network soap opera Home and Away Belle Fotniere, a character from the Meta Runner and SMG4 series Belle the Sleeping Car , in Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Starlight Express Belle, a character in The Muppet Christmas Carol Belle Fontiere, Lucks' right-hand girl, Tari's rival and secondary antagonist of the Meta Runner internet series Belle
1377-585: The King of Fortunate Island but Beauty's mother had married him instead. As revenge the Evil Fairy revealed her crime of having a mortal husband and child to the Fairy Queen , thus causing her imprisonment in Fairyland shortly after Beauty's birth. Another fairy cursed the infant Princess to marry a Beast as a further punishment. Meanwhile, on Fortunate Island, the people had faked their imprisoned Queen's death after they were unable to find her. The Evil Fairy hired
1428-577: The Monster's castle to find him dying on the ground, here the Monster shows Zelinda her father dying on a magic mirror and says the only way she can save him is saying that she loves him. Zelinda does as asked, and the Monster turns into a human, who tells her he is the son of the King of the Oranges. Both Comparetti's and Imbriani's versions were included in Sessanta novelle popolari montalesi by Gherardo Nerucci. British folklorist Rachel Harriette Busk collected
1479-486: The Prince revealed to Beauty that the animals in the castle were those same servants, and that the Good Fairy had caused her to see the Prince's true self in dreams. The Good Fairy then summons the King Of Fortunate Island to meet Beauty, and having reunited the family, brings the petrified servants back to life. She tells them all how years ago the Evil Fairy, the Prince's godmother, had been plotting to marry
1530-408: The Prince would be a Beast forever . After the Prince's godmother left, the Good Fairy arrived to help him by turning the castle's servants to stone to prevent them from revealing the curse to outsiders , and promising to protect his mother from the Evil Fairy. The Good Fairy also summoned her genie servants to keep the Prince company while he waited for Beauty's arrival. At the end of his story,
1581-461: The Prince's mother commands that their tale be written in books so that everyone could know the story of Beauty and the Beast. Beaumont greatly pared down the cast of characters and pruned the tale to an almost archetypal simplicity. The story begins in much the same way as Villeneuve's version, although now the merchant has only six children: three sons and three daughters of which Beauty is one. Unlike Villeneuve's version, Beaumont's version treats
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1632-1801: The San Diego Zoo from 1927 to 1953 Belle Bennett (1891–1932), American stage and screen actress Isabella Belle Boyd (1843–1900), Confederate spy during the American Civil War Belle Brezing (1860–1940), American brothel owner, believed to be the model for Belle Watling in Gone with the Wind Belle Chrystall (1910–2003), British actress Belle Chuo (born 1986), Taiwanese actress Belle Cole (1845–1905), American singer Belle Cooledge (1884–1955), American politician, first female mayor of Sacramento, California Belle Delphine (born 1999), South African internet celebrity Belle Gibson (born 1991) Australian convicted scammer Belle Gunness (1859–1908), Norwegian-American female serial killer Belle R. Harrison (1856–1940), American author Belle Kinney Scholz (1890–1959), Euro-American sculptor Belle Goshorn MacCorkle (1841–1923), American former First Lady of West Virginia Belle Mariano (born 2002), Filipina actress, model and singer Belle Mitchell (1889–1979), American film actress Belle Montrose (1886–1963), Irish-American actress and vaudeville performer born Isabelle Donohue Isabella Belle Moore (1894–1975), Scottish freestyle swimmer Belle Moskowitz (1877–1933), political advisor to New York Governor and 1928 presidential candidate Al Smith Belle Perez , stage name of Maribel Pérez (born 1976), Flemish musician and songwriter Belle L. Pettigrew (1839–1912), American educator, missionary Belle Reynolds (1840–1937), American heroine of
1683-816: The Tinkerer, from the Sonic the Hedgehog comics published by IDW See also [ edit ] Bella [REDACTED] Name list This page or section lists people that share the same given name . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Belle_(given_name)&oldid=1259834526 " Categories : Given names Feminine given names Hypocorisms Slang terms for women English-language feminine given names Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
1734-536: The castle, having been freed by the Fairy Queen. With the entire Royal Family reunited, Beauty's aunt summons the merchant, his children, and the suitors to the castle. Beauty's surrogate family members are told the whole truth and, with the Royal Family's blessing, are made members of the Princess's court and the suitors marry her jealous sisters. Beauty and the Prince are married and they live happily ever after, and
1785-487: The condition he must give him the first living being that greets him when he returns home (note story of Jephthah and his daughter in Judges 11 ). This turns out to be his youngest daughter. In the castle, the girl discovers that the white wolf is enchanted and can turn into a human at night, but she must not tell anyone about it. Unfortunately, the girl is later visited by her two elder sisters who pressure her to tell them what
1836-612: The fairy tale Beauty and the Beast Belle (Disney character) , from the 1991 Disney film Beauty and the Beast , based on the fairy tale Belle ( Once Upon a Time ) (maiden name French, married name Gold), a character from the ABC television series Once Upon a Time Belle Black , from the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives Belle Dingle , from the ITV soap opera Emmerdale Belle Dupree , from
1887-440: The finest dresses possible as they think that his wealth has returned. Beauty asks for nothing but her father to be safe, but when he insists on buying her a present, she is satisfied with the promise of a rose . When he arrives to the port to see his ship the merchant is dismayed to learn that his colleagues have already sold the cargo, thus leaving him penniless and unable to buy his daughters' presents. During his trip back home
1938-486: The 💕 Belle is a feminine given name meaning "beautiful". It may also be a short form ( hypocorism ) of Isabella , Isabel or variations thereof. People [ edit ] Isabella Belle Kendrick Abbott (1842–1893), American author Belle Baker (1893–1957), American singer and actress Belle Baranceanu (1902–1988), American artist Belle Barth (1911–1971), Jewish-American entertainer Belle Benchley (1882–1972), American director of
1989-461: The merchant as Beauty's biological father and there is no indication of her being royalty by birth. The circumstances leading to her arrival at the Beast's castle unfold in a similar manner, but on this arrival, Beauty is informed that she is a mistress and he will obey her. Beaumont strips most of the lavish descriptions present in Beauty's exploration of the palace and quickly jumps to her return home. She
2040-408: The merchant becomes lost in a vicious snowstorm. Seeking shelter, he comes upon a castle surrounded by lifelike statues . Seeing that no one is home, the merchant sneaks in and finds tables inside laden with food and drink, which seem to have been left for him by the castle's invisible owner. The merchant accepts this gift and spends the night there. The next morning, he is about to leave when he sees
2091-427: The merchant must bring his daughter back so the Beast can marry her, as payment for his life. The merchant accepts. When home again, he tells Beauty everything that had happened, and Beauty agrees to go to the castle. The Beast gives Beauty rich clothes and food, and every night he asks her to marry him. She stays at the castle to ensure her father is safe but refuses the Beast's proposals. Beauty starts dreaming about
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2142-453: The merchant the prophecy of "his" youngest child bringing luck to his household. She also decreed that the baby be named "Beauty." She arranged for Beauty and the Prince to meet, the young couple's love both breaking the Evil Fairy's spell and fulfilling the Princess's destiny to marry a Beast. She also testified against the Evil Fairy in Fairyland , who was now imprisoned there. After the Good Fairy finishes her story, her sister arrives at
2193-691: The most commonly retold version. Later, Andrew Lang retold the story in Blue Fairy Book , a part of the Fairy Book series, in 1889. The fairy-tale was influenced by the story of Petrus Gonsalvus as well as Ancient Greek stories such as " Cupid and Psyche " from The Golden Ass , written by Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis in the second century AD, and " The Pig King ", an Italian fairy-tale published by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in The Facetious Nights of Straparola around 1550. Variants of
2244-430: The story originated about 4,000 years ago. A merchant's family loses their fortune, and years later, their father receives news that one ship he owned might still be left. He has to leave home to secure it, but before he does he promises his youngest daughter, Beauty, a rose when he returns. His hopes for a new fortune are dashed when he learns the ship has been sold already. Upon trying to go home, he gets caught in
2295-548: The tale are known across Europe. In France, for example, Zémire and Azor is an operatic version of the story, written by Jean-François Marmontel and composed by André Grétry in 1771, which had enormous success into the 19th century. Zémire and Azor is based on the second version of the tale. Amour pour amour ( Love for Love ) by Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée is a 1742 play based on de Villeneuve's version. According to researchers at universities in Durham and Lisbon ,
2346-514: The two months have passed, she envisions the Beast dying alone on the castle grounds and hastens to return despite her brothers' resolve to prevent her from doing so. Once she is back in the castle, Beauty's fears are confirmed as she finds the Beast near death in a cave on the grounds. Seeing this, Beauty is distraught, realizing that she loves him. She fetches water from a nearby spring, which she uses to resuscitate him. That night she agrees to marry him. When she wakes up next to him, she finds that
2397-421: The war. When the war ended, the Evil Fairy accompanied the Queen and the Prince back to the castle and asked him to marry her. But the Prince refused. The Evil Fairy, in a rage, transformed him into an ugly Beast in front of his shocked mother. Before leaving mother and son, the Evil Fairy warned them that only a maiden's act of true love could break the spell and that if anyone else beside the Queen knew about it,
2448-441: The youngest daughter asks her father to bring her a singing rose when he returns. The man cannot find a singing rose for his youngest daughter, and he refuses to return home until he finds one. When he finally finds singing roses, they are in the castle of the titular white wolf , who initially wants to kill him for daring to steal his roses, but, upon hearing about his daughters, changes his mind and agrees to spare him his life under
2499-509: Was the Queen's brother, the King Of Fortunate Island, who believed Beauty died as a baby; and her birth mother was the Fairy's sister. When the matter of Beauty's background is resolved, she requests that the Prince tell his tale. The Prince informs Beauty that his father died before he was born , and his mother had to fight an enemy to defend the kingdom . The Queen left the Prince in the care of his Evil Fairy Godmother , who tried to seduce him when he became an adult and helped his mother win
2550-422: Was very ill and had been sent to the countryside by her father, the merchant, in hopes that the fresh air would cure her. Tragically, she died instead. The Good Fairy swapped the two infants. Unaware she was not their master's child, the three nursemaids soon returned to the city with the Princess. The Good Fairy followed the nurses to the merchant's mansion, disguised herself as a Romani fortune-teller and told
2601-622: Was written between 1889 and 1913, some time after the original version, so it should be considered as a later version of the story. The tale is classified in the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index as type ATU 425C, "Beauty and the Beast". It is related to the general type ATU 425, " The Search for the Lost Husband " and subtypes. In a study about the myth of Cupid and Psyche , Danish folklorist Inger Margrethe Boberg argued that "Beauty and
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