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Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont (26 April 1711 – 8 September 1780) was a French novelist.

She was born in Rouen and died in 1780. She lost her mother when she was only eleven but wrote that she did not mourn her passing. 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.[1]

From 1725 - 1735 she taught small children in Ernemont, about ten miles from Rouen. Subsequently, she obtained a prestigious position as a singing teacher to the children at the Court of the Duke of Lorraine, Stanisław Les...more Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont (26 April 1711 – 8 September 1780) was a French novelist.

She was born in Rouen and died in 1780. She lost her mother when she was only eleven but wrote that she did not mourn her passing. 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.[1]

From 1725 - 1735 she taught small children in Ernemont, about ten miles from Rouen. Subsequently, she obtained a prestigious position as a singing teacher to the children at the Court of the Duke of Lorraine, Stanisław Leszczyński, at Lunéville.[2]

Her first marriage, in 1743, was disastrous and was annulled after two years. The Duke of Lorraine had personally paid her dowry, a huge sum, so that she could marry well, but her husband used the dowry to pay off his debts, then used the rest to buy a hotel. There he held wild parties and entertained disreputable characters. After her husband contracted a communicable disease as a result of his lifestyle, she was able to obtain an annulment but she retained her husband's name.[2]

In 1746 she left France to become a governess in London. Inspired by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve's story of Beauty and the Beast, she wrote a sensually toned down version of the tale (http://www.endicott-studio.com/rdrm/f...) which is the version most commonly retold today. She is the author of other Classic French Fairy Tales as well.

After a successful publishing career in England, she remarried, bore many children, and left England to live the rest of her life in Savoy.

Her first work, the moralistic novel The Triumph of Truth (Le Triomphe de la vérité) was published in 1748. She continued her literary career by publishing many school books. She then began to publish collections she called "magazines" of educational and moral stories and poems for children. She was one of the first to write fairy tales for children. J., The Great Fairy Tale Tradition: From Straparola and Basile to the Brothers Grimm. She also wrote other based on traditional fairy tale themes.

Another well-known storyteller of the era, Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, wrote a story titled Beauty and the Beast.[4] Le Prince de Beaumont revised and abridged this story considerably, in the form in which it is most commonly known,[4] and always included the revised version in the many "magazines" she published over the next 30 years. The success of this shorter revised version is the reason Le Prince de Beaumont is commonly deemed the author of the classic story.

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	The Young Misses Magazine, Containing Dialogues Between a Governess and Several Young Ladies of Quality Her Scholars: In Which Each Lady Is Made to Sp 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010	My rating:
	Beauty and the Beast by Russell Hicks, Mark Shumate (Adaptor) 3.68 avg rating — 1,370 ratings — published 1756 — 51 editions	My rating:
	The Young Misses Magazine: Containing Dialogues Between a Governess and Several Young Ladies of Quality, Her Scholars. in Which Each Lady Is Made 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	The Young Misses Magazine: Containing Dialogues Between a Governess and Several Young Ladies of Quality, Her Scholars. ... Translated from the Fr 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Moral Tales. Translated from the French of Mde Le Prince de Beaumont. in Two Volumes. ... Volume 2 of 2 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Moral Tales. Translated from the French of Mde Le Prince de Beaumont. in Two Volumes. ... Volume 1 of 2 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	The Young Ladies Magazine, or Dialogues Between a Discreet Governess and Several Young Ladies of the First Rank Under Her Education. by Mrs. Le Prince 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Young Ladies Magazine, or Dialogues Between a Discreet Governess and Several Young Ladies of the First Rank Under Her Education. by Mrs. Le Prince 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Lettres de Madame Du Montier Recueillies Par Madame Le Prince de Beaumont. ... Volume 2 of 2 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:
	Lettres de Madame Du Montier Recueillies Par Madame Le Prince de Beaumont. ... Volume 1 of 2 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	My rating:

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