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4 days ago · "Beauty and the Beast" is a French folktale, first published in 1740, by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve in "La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins". In the story, a wealthy trade merchant has three daughters, but only one of them, Beauty, is kind and pure of heart.
5 days ago · French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve first published his version in 1740. A couple decades a later, it was shortened and adapted by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont for a children’s fairy tale book series. Variants of the tale scattered across Europe, before a Disney adaption was made in the 1900s.