![]() ![]() This version was translated into many languages and published in many parts of Europe. ![]() Beaumont’s is a lot shorter and the plot was much more simplified. The wicked fairy had tries to murder Belle so she could marry her father the king, and Belle was put in the place of the merchant’s dead daughter in order to protect her. The back-story of Belle reveals that she is the daughter of a king and a good fairy. The evil fairy is responsible for turning the prince into a beast when he rejects her romantic advances. This back-story talks about how the Beast was a prince who lost his father at a young age, and was left to live with an evil fairy. She leaves out the back-story of Belle and the Beast and ended it with the Beast’s transformation into a handsome prince. In 1756, the French Aristocrat, Madame Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, shortened Villeneuve’s version (“Tale as Old as Time”). ![]()
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