On Sep 13, 9:35*am, "RBM" wrote:

There is probably more than one "Bellevue" in the U.S.

Why just the US???????????????????

It's likely to be almost anywhere in the English speaking world (Maybe
even Au Francais!)

After all the word 'Belle' is French for 'beautiful' and 'vue' is for
the word 'view' or 'look'.

Ergo (that's Latin by the way) Bellevue can mean 'Beautiful View' ,
'Beautiful Outlook' etc. etc. etc.

Put Bellevue into Google (an American search engine) and get
44,700,000 hits!

Closer to home; there's Bellvue, Washington (Not sure if that's DC or
out west?), Bellvue in Quebec, Canada and another in British Columbia,
Canada. Several in France (as one would expect ................. !).

Oh! Another in Nebraska and another in Croatia ......................
beyond eastern Europe; I give up!

Bonne chance.