Beauty and the Beast
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Beauty and the Beast (
French:
La Belle et la Bête) is a traditional
fairy tale. The first published version of the
fairy tale was a rendition by
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in
La jeune américaine, et les contes marins in 1740.
[1] The best-known written version was an abridgement of her work published in 1756 by
Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, in
Magasin des enfants, ou dialogues entre une sage gouvernante et plusieurs de ses élèves; an English translation appeared in 1757.
[2]
Variants of the tale are known across Europe.
[3] In France, for example,
Zémire et Azor is an operatic version of the story of
Beauty and the Beast written by
Marmontel and composed by
Grétry in 1771. It had enormous success well into the 19th century.
[4] It is based on the second version of the tale.
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