by Ruth Sanderson · Mango · tapa dura · ISBN 9782740402290
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«La Belle et la Bête» is the tale by Madame Leprince de Beaumont, illustrated by Ruth Sanderson, published by Mango in hardcover (32 pages, in French).
Belle, a young woman fond of reading, offers to live in a beast's castle to save her father. Between them, a story of love and acceptance is born in which she learns to look beyond appearances and discover inner nobility.
This book was published in January 1993. ISBN 9782740402290.
Recommended for young readers approaching classic fairy tales.
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont was a French writer who wrote the best-known version of Beauty and the Beast, an abridged adaptation of the 1740 fairy tale by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. Born to a middle-class family, she was raised alongside her younger sister, Catherine Aimée. Both were provided education at a convent school and stayed on as teachers. Rather than remain and take her vow as a nun, she left for Metz, France, and became a governess for a prominent family in a court in Lunéville. As a long-time educator, she became well known for her written works on behavior and instructional teaching for young women. Her interest in the genre of education contributed to her inclusion of fairytales to teach moral behavior.
