Belle Ring

Description of the Belle Ring

Handcrafted ring, with the word BELLE engraved in Roman letters.

• Materials: Available in vermeil gold (yellow or pink), sterling silver, or brass plated in gold (yellow or pink).

• Size: One size and adjustable.

• Width: 1.8 cm.

Note: Measurements may vary slightly due to the handcrafted process.

If you are looking for the ideal finger to wear the ring according to its astrological meaning check our blog.

About the Belle Ring

When I was a student, I always browsed through my father's library; that ensured that the books I read were good. The second selection criterion was invariably the title and the cover. Thus, my youthful readings followed a random and absurd pattern that strangely enriched me quite a bit.

One day I came across "Belle du Seigneur" by Albert Cohen. The plot struck me with the precision with which Solal, the protagonist, methodically executed the seduction of Ariane d'Aube, a young married aristocrat. The story is about possessive love, beauty, and romantic tragedy with an ironic tone and superb prose. It is not by chance that it is considered one of the great novels about love of the 20th century.

At that moment, Solal and Ariane taught me that love is an exhausting choreography of beauty, desire, and sometimes a delightful and inevitable ridiculousness.

Here I leave you a small sample for you to enjoy yourselves:

"Ariane, religious in love, Ariane and her long hunting legs, Ariane and her sumptuous breasts that he liked to give her, and he lost himself in that sweetness of hers. Ariane who called him at three in the morning to ask if he loved her and to tell him that she loved him, and she never tired of that miracle of loving, Ariane who accompanied him to his house, then he accompanied her to hers, and she returned to accompany him, and they could not separate, they could not, and the bed of love welcomed them, beautiful fortunate ones, spacious bed where she said that no one before him nor anyone after him, and beneath him, she cried with joy.

You are beautiful, he told her. I am the beautiful one of the lord, she smiled. ..."

Some comments that are inevitable:

• Love —both one's own and others'— is a serious matter that must be treated with the irony of one who knows everything and the passion of one who knows nothing.
• The ring is adjustable, because we know that even the most absolute passions need room to maneuver.
• If they ask you about the ring, smile perhaps with that ambiguity of the decaying aristocracy. After all, we are all a bit the 'Beautiful One of the Lord', even if the 'Lord' is simply the reflection of our own and proud will.
• This is not a customizable piece; we have engraved the word BELLE in Roman letters, with the force of an empire (they are unmovable) and the fragility of a sigh (they remain unmovable).
• "Ariane, in the end, understood that beauty is not a state, but a necessary staging to survive the mediocrity of Mondays."