The queen left him in care of an evil fairy, who tried to seduce him when he became an adult when he refused, she transformed him into a beast.īelle’s story reveals that she is not really a merchant’s daughter but the offspring of a king and a good fairy. The Beast was a young prince who lost his father, and whose mother had to wage war to defend his kingdom. In this original novella length tale, the back-story of both Belle and the Beast is given. It was over one-hundred pages long and involved a ‘stupid’ Beast, who suffered from more than just his change of appearance. Originally published in La Jeune Américaine, et Les Contes Marins in 1740, Villeneuve’s La Belle et La Bête was an original piece of storytelling. The original story of Beauty and the Beast was written by Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve. Here we cast our minds back to the aristocratic salons of 17 th century France. Who Wrote the Original Beauty and the Beast? Origins of Fairy Tales from Around the World.
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