The merchant quickly plucks the loveliest rose he can find, and is about to pluck more to create a bouquet, only to end up being confronted by a hideous "Beast" who tries to kill him for stealing of his most precious possession even after accepting his hospitality. The next morning, the merchant has come to view the palace as his own possession and is about to leave to fetch his children when he sees a rose garden and recalls that Beauty had desired a rose. The merchant accepts this gift and spends the night there. Seeing that no one is home, the merchant sneaks in and finds tables inside laden with food and drink, which seem to have been left for him by the castle's invisible owner. The merchant, to his dismay, finds that his ship's cargo has been seized to pay his debts, leaving him penniless and unable to buy his children's presents.ĭuring his return, the merchant becomes lost during a vicious storm. Beauty asks for nothing but her father to be safe, but when he insists on buying her a present, she is satisfied with the promise of a rose, as none grow in their part of the country. His oldest daughters ask for clothing, jewels, and the finest dresses possible as they think that his wealth has returned. Before leaving, he asks his children if they wish for him to bring any gifts back for them. Some years later, the merchant hears that one of the trade ships he had sent has arrived back in port, having escaped the destruction of its companions. While Beauty makes a firm resolution to adjust to rural life with a cheerful disposition, her sisters do not and mistake her determination for stupidity. He and his children are consequently forced to live in a small cottage in a forest and work for a living. The merchant eventually loses all of his wealth in a tempest at sea, which sinks most of his merchant fleet. She was the most lovely, as well as kind, well-read, and pure of heart while the elder sisters, in contrast, are cruel, selfish, vain, spoiled and were jealous of the little beauty.
She continued to be named “Beauty” till she was a young adult. All his daughters are very beautiful, but the youngest daughter, was named “little beauty” for she was the most gorgeous among all of them. Illustration for Beauty and the Beast drawn by Walter Crane.Ī widower merchant lives in a mansion with his twelve children (six sons and six daughters). According to researchers at universities in Durham and Lisbon, the story originated about 4,000 years ago. Amour pour amour ( Love for love), by Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée, is a 1742 play based on de Villeneuve's version.
Zémire and Azor is based on the second version of the tale. In France, for example, Zémire and Azor is an operatic version of the story, written by Marmontel and composed by Grétry in 1771, which had enormous success into the 19th century. Variants of the tale are known across Europe. The fairy tale was influenced by Ancient Greek stories such as " Cupid and Psyche" from The Golden Ass, written by Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis in the second century AD, and The Pig King, an Italian fairytale published by Giovanni Francesco Straparola in The Facetious Nights of Straparola around 1550. Later, Andrew Lang retold the story in Blue Fairy Book, a part of the Fairy Book series, in 1889. Her lengthy version was abridged, rewritten, and published by French novelist Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont in 1756 in Magasin des enfants ( Children's Collection) to produce the version most commonly retold. La jeune américaine, et les contes marins (1740), by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve Magasin des enfants (1756), by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de BeaumontĮast of the Sun and West of the Moon (ATU 425A)īeauty and the Beast ( French: La Belle et la Bête) is a fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins ( The Young American and Marine Tales). Artwork from Europa's Fairy Book, by John Batten Beauty releases the prince from his beastly curse.
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