Plagiarism is Boring: Beauty & the Beast by Madame LePrince de Beaumont
After reading the fully loaded original version of Beauty and the Beast by Madame Barbot de Villeneuve , the shortened version by Madame LePrince de Beaumont is lack luster. Sorry, fellow fans, but it just kinda is. It establishes the important basics that make up the elements of consistent BATB tales, but there's not much drama, conflict or interest to draw you in. Let me restate that I am not a literary critic, reviewer or smart in literary analysis in any way. Just to be clear. The comments that follow are those of a girl who loves to read and who loves to read Beauty & the Beast tales. Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont, 1711 - 1780 Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont was a French author, living in the 1700s. She wrote her version of La Belle et La Bête as a magasin - an instructional handbook for parents and teachers. It appeared in Le Magasin des Enfants in 1756. She was quite the writer, producing upwards ...