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‘Beauty and the Beast’

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‘Beauty and the Beast’

European folk tale. A traveller receives mysterious overnight hospitality in a woodland palace, meeting the benevolent owner, a hideous creature, the following morning. The Beast, furious at the theft of a rose by the traveller, agrees to forgive him on condition that the traveller's daughter, Beauty, comes willingly to live with him in the palace. Beauty consents and grows to love the Beast for his gentle character, finally breaking the spell of his hideous appearance by agreeing to marry him. The story first appeared in English in 1757 in a translation from the French version of Madame de Beaumont.



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