Biographies: Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont - Writer

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French author, born on 26 April 1711 in Rouen, France. She's best known for her abridged version of Beauty and the Beast, which was adapted to a number of works, including Beauty and the Beast (1946), Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958), and Beauty and the Beast (2014). She died on 8 September 1780 in Chavanod, Haute-Savoie, France.