Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont was born in Rouen 1711 and died in 1780. She lost her mother when she was only eleven but wrote that she did not mourn her death. The family was very poor and several of her siblings had to be sent away for adoption. She wrote that her mother had suffered terribly at not being able to maintain contact with her children or to establish what had become of them. She therefore felt intuitively that her mother's death was a blessing... Writing the story: Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, wrote a story titled Beauty and the Beast. Leprince de Beaumont revised...
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont was born in Rouen 1711 and died in 1780. She lost her mother when she was only eleven but wrote that she did not mou...
