Beauty and the Beast
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"Beauty and the Beast" is a fairy tale written by the French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published anonymously in 1740 in La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins.
Beauty releases the prince from his beastly curse. Artwork from Europa's Fairy Book, by John Batten.
Illustration by Warwick Goble.
A Serbian translation from 1787, published in the old Slavonic-Serbian literary language, translated by Avram Mrazović.
Painting of Petrus Gonsalvus (c. 1580).
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve was a French author influenced by Madame d'Aulnoy, Charles Perrault, and various précieuse writers. Villeneuve is particularly noted for her original story of La
Beauty and the Beast
…Beauty and the Beast" is a fairy tale written by the French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published anonymously in 1740 in La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins (The Young American and Marine Tales). Villeneuve's original story was…
Portrait of de Villeneuve, 1759