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Prosper Mérimée (great-grandson) Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (French: [ʒan maʁi ləpʁɛ̃s də bomɔ̃] ⓘ; 26 April 1711 – 8 September 1780) was a French novelist who wrote Beauty and the Beast. Born to a middle-class family, she was raised alongside her younger sister, Catherine Aimée. Both were provided education at a convent ...
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, née Marie-Barbe Leprince le 26 avril 1711 à Rouen note 1 et morte le 6 décembre 1776 à Avallon 1 est une femme de lettres française. Auteure sous le nom de Mme Leprince de Beaumont note 2, elle écrivit environ 70 volumes de contes pour enfants, comme La Belle et la Bête, lequel est devenu un classique ...
Biography: Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont wrote the most popular version of the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast" in 1756. She also wrote many works aimed at educating and morally instructing young women, drawing on her own experience as a teacher and governess.
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont published an anthology for young people--a pioneering work of the kind--called Le Magasin des enfants in 1756, while she was working as a governess in England. She had left an unhappy marriage in France in 1746. The arranged union with M. de Beaumont, a "dissolute libertine," had been annulled after only two ...
Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont (1711-1780) moved from her native France to England in about 1745 and from England to Switzerland in 1764. A prolific author of over 70 volumes, she was highly regarded in her day, but is now known only for her version of "Beauty and the Beast."
Jeanne Marie Leprince De Beaumont published Le Belle et la Bête in Le Magasin des Enfants in 1756. This version is translated by Maria Tatar for The Classic Fairy Tales.
Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont created works of fiction and non-fiction, authored essays and epistolary novels,1 and published what many now consider the first educational journals for children. A French author who resided in England from 1748 to 1763, Beaumont2 is primarily recognized today for the children‟s tales she popularized in
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