Talk:Belle Reve

"Belle Reve" or "Belle Rêve"?
In the Google Books preview of Captain's Glory, this ship's name is spelled "Belle Rêve". Could somebody with a hard copy of the book check if it's the same there? If so, I suggest we rename this article.

Also, it might be worth mentioning as background info that William Shatner owns a ranch called Belle Reve.

Another piece of background info, though it may go slightly too far into the realm of speculation: The book Captain's Glory translates Belle Rêve as "beautiful dream". However, this is actually rather bad French; "rêve" is a masculine word, so it should be "Beau Rêve". Assuming that the author was aware of this, the name is likely a reference to the play A Streetcar Named Desire, where there is a plantation called "Belle Reve" (something which literary theorists can talk for hours about). --LoghaD (talk) 21:05, January 4, 2014 (UTC)