![]() ![]() The wicked fairy had tried to murder Belle, so she could marry her father the king, and Belle was put in the place of a merchant’s dead daughter to protect her. Belle’s story reveals that she is not really a merchant’s daughter but the offspring of a king and a good fairy. 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. 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. It’s really fascinating: The original story of Beauty and the Beast was written by Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve. Beauty likes to wear flowers in her hair. Beauty’s true father and Beast/Prince’s mother are brother and sister. Yes, in the original version of Beauty and the Beast written by Madame de Villeneuve, Beauty and Beast/Prince are cousins. ![]()
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