Madame de Villeneuve's The Story of the Beauty and the Beast: The Original Classic French Fairytale - Softcover

Barbot De Villeneuve, Gabrielle-Suzanne; Lawrence, Rachel Louise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1502992973 ISBN 13: 9781502992970

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

Think you know the story of Beauty and the Beast? Think again!

This book contains the original tale by Madame de Villeneuve, first published in 1740, and although the classic elements of Beauty giving up her freedom to live with the Beast, during which time she begins to see beyond his grotesque appearance, are present, there is a wealth of rich back story to how the Prince became cursed and revelations about Beauty’s parentage, which fail to appear in subsequent versions. 

If you want to read the full story of Beauty and the Beast, look no further than this latest unabridged edition... 

[Folklore Type: ATU-425C (Beauty and the Beast)]

About this title

About the Author:

Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve (c.1695 - 29 December 1755) was a French author influenced by Madame d'Aulnoy and Charles Perrault.

Madame de Villeneuve was born in La Rochelle. She is particularly noted for her La Belle et la Bête, which is the oldest known variant of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. First published in 'La jeune américaine, et les contes marins', it is over a hundred pages long, containing many subplots, and involving a genuinely savage - i.e. 'stupid' - Beast, not merely a change of appearance.

Her lengthy version was abridged, rewritten, and published by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont in 1756, to produce the version most commonly retold.

In 1767, she wrote a novel La Jardinière de Vincennes. She was a close friend of the controversial writer Claude Jolyot de Crébillon. She died in Paris.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1502992973
• ISBN 13: 9781502992970
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 151