About “Belle et Sébastien”
Belle et Sébastien is a 1965 novel by Cécile Aubry that follows a six-year-old boy named Sébastien and his dog Belle, a Great Pyrenees. The story takes place in a village in the French Alps near the Italian border. Sébastien lives with his adopted grandfather, sister, and brother. His mother, a Romani, died after giving birth to him while trying to cross the border on Saint Sebastian's day. The novel was adapted into a French live action television series the same year it was published. It later inspired a book series, a Japanese anime in 1981, a French film in 2013, and two sequels in 2015 and 2017. A French-Canadian co-produced TV series also came out in 2017. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)
Book details
- Published
- 1965
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