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Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (French: [ʒan maʁi ləpʁɛ̃s də bomɔ̃] ⓘ; 26 April 1711 – 8 September 1780) was a French novelist who wrote Beauty and the Beast. Born to a middle-class family, she was raised alongside her younger sister, Catherine Aimée.
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, née Marie-Barbe Leprince le 26 avril 1711 à Rouen [note 1] et morte le 6 décembre 1776 à Avallon [1] est une femme de lettres française.
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont published an anthology for young people--a pioneering work of the kind--called Le Magasin des enfants in 1756, while she was working as a governess in England. She had left an unhappy marriage in France in 1746.
Nationality: French. Biography: Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont wrote the most popular version of the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast" in 1756. She also wrote many works aimed at educating and morally instructing young women, drawing on her own experience as a teacher and governess.
Jeanne Marie Leprince De Beaumont published Le Belle et la Bête in Le Magasin des Enfants in 1756. This version is translated by Maria Tatar for The Classic Fairy Tales.
Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont created works of fiction and non-fiction, authored essays and epistolary novels,1 and published what many now consider the first educational journals for children. A French author who resided in England from 1748 to 1763, Beaumont2 is primarily recognized today for the children‟s tales she popularized in
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French novelist and story writer, born in Rouen, France. She emigrated to England c. 1745, working as a governess in the highest circles and, in 1756, publishing her influential four‐volume ... From: Leprince De Beaumont, Jeanne‐Marie in The Oxford Companion to English Literature ». Subjects: Literature.
