Quotes from Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont's books, and about them
Orthodoxy on Beauty and the Beast: “There is the great lesson of "Beauty and the Beast"; that a thing must be loved BEFORE it is loveable.”
The Water-Babies on Beauty and the Beast: “But Tom thought he would sooner have a jolly good fairy tale, about Jack the Giant-killer or Beauty and the Beast, which taught him something that he didn’t know already.”
Babel Tower on Beauty and the Beast: “'She's closed off from us, like Beauty and the Beast, like Gwendolen and Grandcourt, and one of these days she'll turn up with bag and baggage.'”
Shame on Beauty and the Beast: “the classic fable Beauty and the Beast is simply the story of an arranged marriage”
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