![]() ![]() La Belle et la Bête inspired both the 1991 Disney film and the 2017 remake, which pays homage to the original writer by naming Belle’s village “Villeneuve.” As always, Disney has taken some major liberties with the source material - which is for the best, as Villeneuve’s story goes in some pretty twisted directions. While similar folktales have been kicking around for thousands of years, the story that most readers know comes directly from a novel by French author Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, first published in 1740. Potts sings that Beauty and the the Beast is a “tale as old as time.” But it’s not quite as old as fans might imagine. ![]() Beauty and the Beast by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, shown here in a new edition illustrated MinaLima and published by HarperCollins ![]()
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