Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
Known for
Writing
Life
1711 – 1780 (aged 69)
Born in
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Biography
Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (26 April 1711 – 8 September 1780) was a French novelist who wrote the best known version of Beauty and the Beast. Her third husband was the French spy Thomas Pichon (1757–1760).