Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont Biography
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont  pronunciation (help·info) (26 April 1711 – 8 September 1780) was a French author who wrote the best known version of Beauty and the Beast. Her third husband was the French spy Thomas Pichon (1757–1760).

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