Beauty and the Beast, Fairy Tales and Bedtime Stories for Kids, Princess Story
Beauty and the Beast, Fairy Tales and Bedtime Stories for Kids, Princess Story Subscribe: Beauty and the Beast (French: La Belle et la Bête) is a traditional fairy tale written by French novelist GabrielleSuzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in La Jeune Américaine et les contes Her lengthy version was abridged, rewritten, and published by JeanneMarie Leprince de Beaumont in 1756 in Magasin des enfants2 to produce the version most commonly BEAUTY and the BEAST PLOT : A wealthy, widowed merchant lives in a mansion with his six children, three sons and three daughters. All his daughters are very beautiful, but the youngest, Beauty, is the most lovely, as well as kind, wellread and pure of heart; while the two elder sisters, in contrast, are wicked, selfish, vain and spoiled, and secretly taunt and treat Beauty more
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