What is Beauty and the Beast?
{{For|the Disney movie|Beauty and the Beast (1991 movie)}} [[File:Crane beauty5.jpg|right|thumb|A drawing of Beauty and the Beast]] '''''Beauty and the Beast''''' is a [[France|French]] folk story. It tells the story of a [[merchant]] who is lost in the woods. He finds the palace of a [[beast]] who wants to kill him, and makes a deal with the beast, to have his daughter in exchange. The daughter goes to live in the Beast's [[castle]]; the two fall in love; and the beast turns into a [[prince]]. The story has been published and revised in many versions, most notably Madame [[Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve]]'s [[1740]] retelling and its revision in [[1756]] by Madame [[Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont]]. It was the inspiration for many other stories, as well as a [[1980s]] [[TV]] series starring [[Linda Hamilton]] and [[Ron Pearlman]]. Several [[movie]]s have been based on it, most famously [[Jean Cocteau]]'s [[1946]] version and the [[1991]] [[animation|animated]] version by [[Walt Disney Pictures|Disney]], which was nominated for the [[Best Picture]] [[Academy Award]] and inspired a long-running [[Broadway]] musical. == Other websites == * {{in lang|fr}} [http://www.litteratureaudio.com/livre-audio-gratuit-mp3/leprince-de-beaumont-jeanne-marie-la-belle-et-la-bete.html/ Beauty and the Beast, audio version] [[File:Speaker Icon.svg|20px]] [[Category:Fairy tales]]