Beauty and the Beast
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Beauty and the Beast is a traditional fairy tale (type 425C -- search for a lost husband -- in the Aarne-Thompson classification system). The first published version of the fairy tale was a meandering rendition by Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in La jeune américaine, et les contes marins in 1740. The best-known written version was an abridgement of M. Villeneuve's work published in 1756 by Mme Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, in Magasin des enfants, ou dialogues entre une sage gouvernante et plusieurs de ses élèves; an English translation appeared in 1757.
Variants of the tale are known across Europe.
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See also
- Love-hate relationship
- Damsel in distress
- Noble savage
- The Feather of Finist the Falcon
- Shrek
- The Phantom of the Opera
- Dracula
- King Kong
- Edward Scissorhands
- Macbeth
- Notre Dame de Paris
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