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janestvalentine · 6 months

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leer-reading-lire · 10 months

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JOMP Book Photo Challenge || June || 29 || Freebie

Beauty and the Beast

#jompbpc #justonemorepage #book photo challenge #beauty and the beast #fairy tale #fairy tales #books and reading #la belle et la bête #Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve #booklr #leerreadinglire

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thefugitivesaint · 1 year

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“Hope, resistance, flirtation: these are common threads among the first versions of the Grimms’ fairy tales published in 1812, before they were heavily edited by the brothers ahead of Edgar Taylor’s English translations, first published in 1823. At this point, the names of Dortchen Wild, Marie Hassenpflug and other young female contributors such as Jenny von Droste-Hülshoff had already disappeared from the record, their husbands, sons and brothers ensuring their contributions would not be recognised.” .... “... it was aristocratic women in the Parisian salons of the 1690s who invented not only our modern word ‘fairy tale’ (contes de fée in French), but also one of its most enduring examples: La Belle et la Bête or Beauty and the Beast, whose author was the aristocratic widow Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, whom Voltaire referred to as ‘that old shrew’. Jubber estimates that roughly two-thirds of the 90 tales surviving from this period were written by women, even if this is no longer widely known today. The same fate has been suffered by storytellers of colour, such as Hanna Diyab from Syria, who brought Aladdin and Ali Baba to Europe in the 18th century. How many other collections of tales and fables originated with women, not men? What about Aesop’s fables? Homer’s Iliad? The Bible? If we go back far enough, it may be that we owe most of our classic tales to the oral storytelling tradition women have kept alive for thousands of years. Note that the oldest named author in history may well be a woman: the Sumerian priestess Enheduanna is believed to be the author of the Exaltation of Inanna and the Sumerian Temple Hymns, dating from the 23rd century BCE. “

#christine lehnen #fairy tales #fairy tale origins #gabrielle-suzanne barbot de villeneuve #hanna diyab #enheduanna #brothers grimm #fables #contes de fée

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umi-no-onnanoko · 7 months

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noplaceforsanity · 1 year

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“Who gave you permission to gather my roses? Is it not enough that I kindly allowed you to remain in my palace? Instead of feeling grateful, rash man, I find you stealing my flowers! Your insolence shall not remain unpunished.” Madame de Villeneuve's Original Beauty and the Beast, translated by J. R. Planché

#inspiration #quote #la belle et la bête #gabrielle-suzanne barbot de villeneuve #la bella e la bestia #beauty and the beast #leon dalville #alessandro preziosi #my gifs

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libertyreads · 1 year

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Book Review #55 of 2023--

The Beauty and the Beast by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. Rating: 2 stars.

Read from May 8th to 9th.

I’ll keep this one short since everyone knows the basic premise of Beauty and the Beast (at least the Disney version). I was surprised by just how different this was than the well known version of today. I didn’t completely hate the differences, but the writing style drove me up a wall. Especially in the last half of the book. We follow a similar enough plot throughout the first 130ish pages, but then we get a fairy who spends the next 75ish pages just explaining how everything came to be and how she managed to work it all out in the end. It felt unnecessary--or if not unnecessary it felt like this should have been seen before the beginning of the novel. As is usual for the classics I read, there were a lot of things that just worked out from nowhere. Contrivances that make everything tie off with a bow nicely. But I guess in the 18th century that’s something you were looking for in fiction. Overall, not my favorite classic I’ve read, but also not a least favorite. And I’m definitely keeping this gorgeous Minalima edition on my shelves.

#The Beauty and the Beast #Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve #minalima #minalima edition #books read in 2023 #2023 reading challenge #goodreads #goodreads challenge #books #booklr #bookblr #classic #classics #classic literature #bookstagram #bookish #book #beauty and the beast

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mourningmaybells · 2 years

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“I used to call her ‘mother’“

“They were always followed by the tenderest caresses. I was not old enough to comprehend her.”

y’know for some reason I thought I was exaggerating when I vaguely remembered that the original beauty and the beast story (villeneuve, 1740) had the prince experience csa before being punished for refusing through a curse, but now I realize it was both csa and adoptive-incest

#beauty and the beast #gabrielle villaneuve #Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve #cw incest mention #cw csa mention

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princess-ibri · 2 years

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Doodle I did when I should have been sleeping. In the original Beauty and the Beast Beauty’s mother is a fairy, assumed to be dead but later found alive (also Beauty is adopted by the merchant who raises her). Anyway, I really liked the idea of taking that for Belle’s mother in the Disney version, and shaking it up.

So my backstory for Belle’s mother (I’ve been calling her Gabrielle after the woman who wrote BatB) is that she was a fairy who gave up her immortality for the man she loved, later succumbing to a mortal illness, (along with her younger daughter Clarice) but leaving a loving legacy behind her. Maurice never knew she was originally a fairy (she’d been visiting him in mortal disguise) but always knew she was special.

Also the Enchantress who curses the Beast was a friend of hers, and keeps an eye on Belle, realizing later she could be the one to help finally break the curse and putting events in motion behind the scenes to get her to the castle when the time is right (as implied in the old Marvel BatB comics)

#disney #my art #beauty and the beast #belle's mother #disney belle #the enchantress #BatB the enchantress #fairies #Gabrielle Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve #I actually squealed when they named the village in the live action version after her xD #a very caption America moment xD #disney headcanons #worldbuilding #DisneyVerse #Godmother Backstory #Disney Parent Backstory #clarice batb #clarice was a deleted younger sister of Belle in early versions of the movie

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90smovies · 2 years

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ariel-seagull-wings · 2 years

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Edward Corbould and Brothers Dalziel illustrations for Madame de Villeneuve's Beauty and the Beast

#gabrielle suzanne barbot de villeneuve #beauty and the beast #la belle et la bete #fairy tales #fantasy #mithology #folklore #illustrations #aesthetics

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prosebushpatch · 1 year

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have a new character who plays the harp so I looked up just “harp cover” because idk I just want to start thinking about how it would look/sound, but anyway now I’ve come to the conclusion that Fireflies should never be played on anything but the harp.

#rose and rambles #prosie's writing adventures #i decided this like one measure into the video #obvs my goal is to find songs that fit the characters and ya know what maybe fireflies does but eh im still perusing #fun fact! in the fairy tale by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve #Beauty is very skilled with instruments and singing and performs for her family to lift their spirits #hence the harp thing #but also i thought it was so interesting how the fairy tale *does* mention that she likes reading and the beast's library #but it's only in passing and its more of a 'oh that could be a way to pass the time'#UNTIL SHE FINDS THE MAGIC MIRROR #and then she uses it to watch operas and plays and stuff from afar and/or the servants in the castle put on performances for her #I do think the disney version did so much more for developing the beast's character and from a writing perspective #the fact that his curse is so closely tied to his own character arc is much tighter writing #but it's also interesting how disney has truly impacted all subsequent retellings of beauty and the beast #to the point that the beast's arrogance and belle's love of books has become synonymous with the fairy tale #okay end of ramble and back to harp covers

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kittygrimm · 2 years

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Tale As Old As Time by Kitty-Grimm

#art #artwork #artists on tumblr #watercolour #ink #fairy tale #beauty and the beast #la belle et la bête #jeanne marie leprince de beaumont #gabrielle suzanne barbot de villeneuve #jean cocteau #disney

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whisperinglines · 1 year

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I pianti sono la consolazione dell’infelicità.

- Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, La Bella e la Bestia

#quote #bookblr #la bella e la bestia #gabrielle suzanne barbot de villeneuve #fiaba

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leer-reading-lire · 4 months

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JOMP Book Photo Challenge || January || 10 || Magical Moment

The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald

Beauty and the Beast by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve

#jompbpc #justonemorepage #book photo challenge #book photography #booklr #books #leerreadinglire #beauty and the beast #fairy tales #george macdonald #The Princess and the Goblin

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pinkslenderman · 2 days

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HELLO MY BELOVED BEAST, what is it that you like to do in your free time?

Oh!

I suppose by human standards I am a beast indeed!

Why, read of course, what greater thing is there then literature? Explore the worlds hidden in the delicately written scripts...of romance, of tragedy, of rapture and dismay.

Why, one could weep at a true authors beauty of the written word.

I'm especially enraptured with a most wonderous tale, its a recent one-

Well...by my current memories its recent...

La Belle et la Bête by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve....oh how one could swoon over her words...the romance, the dismay and horrific beauty.....unrealistic as the prospect of such love feels...it gives this silly little 'beast' hope.

#pink posts #pink answers #slendlr #child pink #OOC LORE DROP and.........omgoodness i can't decide if this speech is wonderful or terrible yet...

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my-plastic-life · 11 months

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Daily Dose of Disney (Princess): Belle

This tale as old as time is still a classic!

Princess: Belle Movie: Beauty and the Beast Year Released: 1991 Original Story: “Beauty and the Beast” by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve

Fun Facts: ~ Katherine Hepburn’s performance as Jo March in “Little Women” inspired Belle’s characteristics. Jo, like Belle, is strong and has a passion for literature. ~ "Beauty and the Beast" was nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards in 1992, making Belle the first and only Disney princess to be part of such an honor. The film was also the very first full-length animated feature film in cinema history to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. ~ Belle is the only person in her town to wear blue.

~ The Beast does actually have a name - he’s Prince Adam. ~ The dance between Prince Adam and Belle at the end of the movie is reused animation from Sleeping Beauty. Disney was running out of time during the production of Beauty and the Beast, so they reused the animated dance between Princess Aurora and Prince Phillip. ~ She was the first Disney princess to see snow.

#My Plastic Life #doll photography #Belle #Beauty and the Beast #Disney 100 #Disney 100th anniversary #one sixth scale #myfroggystufffanpics #TenderWolf

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