Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

personal-info

known-for

Writing

gender

Female

birthday

1711-04-26

place-of-birth

Rouen, France

also-known-as

Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont
Leprince de Beaumont

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).