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Her first marriage, in 1743, was annulled after two years. She wrote beauty and the beast and other classic french fairy tales, and after a successful publishing career in england, including many schoolbooks, remarried, bore many children. After her mother passed away when jeanne was only eleven, she and her sisters were tutored by two wealthy women who later on enrolled them into a convent school in ernemont in rouen. Biographical essay for chawton house library and women writers. She was born in 1711 in rouen, the daughter of mariebarbe plantart and jeanbaptiste le prince, and. Her third husband was the french spy thomas pichon. Beauty and the beast explores the dark morality of fairy. The book was published in multiple languages including, consists of 48 pages and is available in kindle edition format. She is the author of many classic tales for children and y. Jean cocteaus film beauty and the beast is based on the text. Unlike the earlier versions of the stories she gathered, her texts had a clear didactic function and aimed to teach their young readers moral lessons.
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