Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve  

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Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, French author (c. 1695-Paris, 1755). She is considered the original author of the story of Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête). Her lengthy version was abridged and published by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. In 1767 she wrote a novel La Jardinière de Vincennes. She was a close friend of the controversial writer Claude Jolyot de Crébillon.

Works

  • Le Phénix conjugal, nouvelle du temps (1734)
  • Gaston de Foix, quatrième du nom, nouvelle historique, galante et tragique ( 1739)
  • Contes de cette année (1744) réédité sous le titre : Contes de Mme de Villeneuve (1765)
  • Les Belles solitaires (1745)
  • La Jardinière de Vincennes (1753)
  • Le Juge prévenu (1754)
  • La Jeune Amériquaine et les contes marins (1740)
  • Le Beau-frère supposé (1740)
  • Le Temps et la patience, conte moral (1768)




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