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).