Madame de Villeneuve's The Story of the Beauty and the Beast: The Original Classic French Fairytale
by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, Rachel Louise Lawrence
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This book contains the original tale by Madame de Villeneuve, first published in 1740, and although the classic elements of Beauty giving up her freedom to live with the Beast, during which time she begins to see beyond his grotesque appearance, are present, there is a wealth of rich back story to how the Prince became cursed and revelations about Beauty's parentage, which fail to appear in subsequent versions.
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