Belleville (commune)

{{Short description|Former commune in the Seine département, east of Paris, France}}

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Belleville ({{IPA|fr|bɛlvil|-|LL-Q150 (fra)-Benoît Prieur-Belleville.wav}}) was a French commune in the Seine department, lying immediately east of Paris, Île-de-France. It was one of four communes entirely annexed by the city of Paris in 1860. Its territory is now shared by the 19th and 20th arrondissements, but a neighborhood has retained its name: the quartier de Belleville. The village was built on and around a hill, the second highest of the French capital after Montmartre.Philippe Dally, 1912: Belleville. Histoire d'une localité parisienne pendant la Révolution, with preface by Frantz Funck-Brentano, Paris, Librairie Jean SchemitEmmanuel Jacomin, Clément Lepidis, 1975: Belleville, Paris, Éd. Henri Veyrier The composer and conductor Jules Pillevesse (1837–1903) was born in Belleville.