Belle et Sébastien is a novel by Cécile Aubry about a six-year-old boy named Sébastien and his dog Belle, a Pyrenean Mountain Dog, who live in a small French Alps Mountain village on the French side of the border between France and Italy. The live action show, filmed in black-and-white, was broadcast in France from 1965 to 1970. In 1967, it was dubbed and the title was anglicised to Belle and Sebastian and first appeared on British television's BBC1 on Monday afternoons, with an initial airing date of October 2, 1967, its initial run concluding on January 1, 1968. Read more