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Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve was an 18th-century French author best known for writing the original version of the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. Operating in mid-18th-century France, she published multiple novels and fairy tales that laid the groundwork for future cinematic and literary adaptations.
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve was an 18th-century French author and novelist associated with classical European fairy tales.
She is best known for writing the original 1740 literary version of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast.
She authored traditional 18th-century novels and expansive fairy tale narratives that predated later abridged versions.
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