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Gabrielle Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve

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Name
  
Gabrielle-Suzanne de

Books
  
Beauty and the Beast

Role
  
Author

Movies
  
Beauty and the Beast

Died
  
December 29, 1755, Paris, France

Similar People
  
Jeanne‑Marie Leprince de Beau, Diane Eskenazi, Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Warwick Goble

Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve (c.1695 – 29 December 1755) was a French author influenced by Madame d'Aulnoy, Charles Perrault, and various precieuse writers.

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Barbot de Villeneuve was born in La Rochelle. She is particularly noted for her La Belle et la Bete, which is the oldest known variant of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. First published in La jeune americaine, et les contes marins, it is over a hundred pages long, containing many subplots, and involving a genuinely savage - i.e. "stupid" - Beast, not merely a change of appearance. Her lengthy version was abridged, rewritten, and published by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, to produce the version most commonly retold.

She authored the novel "La Jardiniere de Vincennes," which saw a second edition published in 1757. She maintained a close friendship with the provocative writer Claude Jolyot de Crebillon. Her life came to an end in Paris.

References

Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve Wikipedia