Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast is a traditional folktale (type 425C -- search for a lost husband -- in the Aarne-Thompson classification). The first published version of the fairy tale was a meandering rendition by Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in La jeune ameriquaine, et les contes marins in 1740. The best-known written version was an abridgement of M. Villeneuve's work published in 1756 by Mme Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, in Magasin des enfans, ou dialogues entre une sage gouvernante et plusieure de ses èleves; an English translation appeared in 1757.

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Folktale - Aarne-Thompson - Fairy tale - Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve - 1740 - 1756 - Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont - 1757

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Similar tales include the Hellenistic romance Cupid and Psyche (1st century BCE), and Madame d'Aulnoy's Le Mouton (The Ram).

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Hellenistic - Cupid and Psyche - Madame d'Aulnoy

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