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Beauty and the Beast " is a fairy tale written by the French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published anonymously in 1740 in La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins ( The Young American and Marine Tales ). [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Villeneuve's original story was abridged, revised, and published by French novelist Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont in 1756 in Magasin des enfants [ 3 ] ( Children's Collection ) which became the most commonly retold version. [ 4 ] Later, Andrew Lang retold the story in Blue Fairy Book , a part of the Fairy Book series, in 1889. [ 5 ] The fairy-tale was influenced by the story of Petrus Gonsalvus [ 6 ] as well as Ancient Latin stories such as " Cupid and Psyche " from The Golden Ass , written by Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis in the second century AD, and " The Pig King ", an Italian fairy-tale published by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in The Facetious Nights of Straparola around 1550. [ 7 ] |
