Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont
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Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont was a French writer who wrote the best-known version of Beauty and the Beast, an abridged adaptation of the 1740 fairy tale by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. Born to a middle-class family, she was raised alongside her younger sister, Catherine Aimée. Both were provided education at a convent school and stayed on as teachers. Rather than remain and take he…
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culture · French author (1711–1780) · journalist · writer · children's writer · collector of fairy tales · editor · novelist · writer of tales · independent publisher · governess · educator · also Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Madame leprince de Beaumont, Beaumont
Born 26 April 1711 · Died 8 September 1780 · Q466788
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Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont
Died 1780-09-08.
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Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont
Born 1711-04-26.
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