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{{Infobox book
| title = Beauty and the Beast
| original title = La Belle et la Bête
| image = Crane_beauty5.jpg
| caption = What a boar.
| author = Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve
| central theme = True Love goes beyond appearances (or [[A Match Made in Stockholm]] really works if you are cynical enough)
| elevator pitch = A young woman lets herself become a captive in the palace of a hideous (but actually good person) Beast who falls in love with her. After freeing her, she realizes that she has fallen for him too and rush to confess to him, which turns out to be what was needed to lift the curse that made him him a beast and returns him to his human self.
| genre = Fairy tale
| publication date = 1740
| source page exists =
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'''''[https://web.archive.org/web/20170212161259/http://surlalunefairytales.com/beautybeast/index.html Beauty And The Beast]''''' is an old French [[Fairy Tale]] which was, at the time, basically propaganda for [[Arranged Marriage]] using [[Rags to Royalty]]. Over time it has lost that meaning and become more romanticized. The original literary version of the story was written in 1740 by Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, and was a sprawling and convoluted affair of [[Contrived Coincidence]]s and last-minute exposition, in which the Beast and Beauty were revealed to be [[Kissing Cousins|first cousins]], [[Half-Human Hybrid|half-fairy]] (on their mothers' side), and [[Everything's Better with Princesses|royalty]] (on their fathers' side). In 1756, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont condensed it to the version which is best known today (excepting Disney's). While presumably based on older tales, de Villeneuve's version is the first to use the ''[[Beauty and The Beast]]'' title.
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