Sadly, she married a man who wasted her family’s fortune and she was widowed at the age of 26. Interestingly, her own story is one of riches to rags. Villeneuve might be most famous for Beauty and the Beast, but in her lifetime, she was best known for her novels. A wise fairy also visited her in her in dreams.Ĥ. As this version is from 1740, that’s a pretty cool concept. Even better, she is able to watch any theatrical performance of her choice through a magic mirror. She also dreams every night of a dashing prince (who is actually the Beast). A highlight of Villeneuve’s version include Beauty chatting with birds. In it, Beauty is the daughter of a king and a wicked fairy – the very same fairy who turns the prince into a dumb and pitiful Beast.ģ. Villeneuve’s telling is over one hundred pages long. She included it in a 1740 story collection called The Young American or Tales of the Sea. She claimed that a chambermaid told it to a young lady, while on board a ship to America.Ģ. The original printed version of Beauty and the Beast is credited to a French writer called Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. Beauty and her magic mirror in Storytime Issue 31.
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