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Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve

(1685—1755)


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(1685–1755),

French writer whose ‘La Belle et la bête’ (‘*Beauty and the Beast’) was the basis for Mme Leprince de Beaumont's famous version. Unhappily married to a military officer, Villeneuve ...

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Villeneuve, Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de (1685–1755)
in The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales Length: 600 words

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