He was killed in action at Belloy-en-Santerre on July 4, 1916, famously cheering on his fellow soldiers in a successful charge after being hit several times by machine gun fire.
The façade is in Renaissance style; the gate, sometimes attributed to Jean Bullant, consists of a tympanum leading to columns grooved in Corinthian capitals, the whole surrounded by a very decorated classic entablature, surmounted in the extremities by two roof lanterns.
Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy | Belloy-en-Santerre | Belloy |
Gabriella di Vergy, an opera seria by Gaetano Donizetti (1826, revised 1838), and an opera by Mercadante (1828), based on the tragedy Gabrielle de Vergy by Dormont De Belloy (1777)
The railway station lies between the communes of Belloy-en-France and Saint-Martin-du-Tertre, near the hamlet of Les Briqueteries.
By 1770 she was back in France at Rouen, and her success as Euphmie in Belloy's Gaston et Bayard caused her to be called to the Comédie Française, where, in 1772, she made her debut as Dido.
In 1758 the performance of his Titus, which had already been produced in Saint Petersburg, was postponed through his uncles exertions; and when it did appear, a hostile cabal procured its failure, and it was not until after his guardians death that de Belloy returned to Paris with Zelmire (1762), a fantastic drama which met with great success, latter becoming an opera by Rossini.