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Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, French author (c. 1695, La Rochelle - 1755, Paris), influenced by Madame d'Aulnoy, Charles Perrault, and various précieuse writers.[1]
She is particularly noted for her La Belle et la Bête, which is the oldest known variants of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast.[1] First published in La jeune ameriquaine, et les contes marins, it is over a hundred pages long, containing many subplots, and involving a genuinely savage Beast, not merely a beastly facade.[1] Her lengthy version was abridged, rewritten, and published by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, to produce the version most commonly retold.[1]
In 1767 she wrote a novel La Jardinière de Vincennes. She was a close friend of the controversial writer Claude Jolyot de Crébillon.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d Terri Windling, Beauty and the Beast
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