Belles' alliance

• La Belle Alliance: a village and an inn located near the centre of the French lines at the Battle of Waterloo; also, the name the Prussians gave to the battle
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• Bell: pseudonym used by the Brontë sisters, continuing the Brontë allusions in this paragraph

• Alice → ALP

• Bella Cohen: the Madam of the brothel in which the 15th chapter of Ulysses, Circe, is set

• belles: beautiful girls → Issy
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• Iseult la Belle: Isolde, an Irish princess in Arthurian legend; the adulterous lover of Tristan → Issy
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