While you can hear at the beginning the author of The Beauty and the Beast is unknown, it's only partially true. This story is one of the best-documented and we can be trace it right to the 2nd century AD when Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis wrote the myth about Eros and Psyche.<br><br>In the form of a fairy tale (as a full-length novel) Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve published it in 1740 and like a fairy tale for kids, Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont rewrote it in 1756. After that, numerous variations with the same plot were made. This is one of them.
As you can see, the video is accompanied by illustrations by Richard Andre. More about this prolific illustrator who used at least three pen names can be found here:
https://richard-andre.jimdosit...
You'll notice the illustrations are not always synchronized with the spoken text. The first reason for that is the fact we are dealing with the euphemized version where Beauty's sisters, for instance, are not punished at the end (They became stone statues in Villeneuve's and Beaumont's stories. There is also next to nothing about the harsh weather causing merchant to stray in the wood. Richard Andre portrayed both scenes.
You'll notice the illustrations are not always synchronized with the spoken text. The first reason for that is the fact we are dealing with the euphemized version where Beauty's sisters, for instance, are not punished at the end (They became stone statues in Villeneuve's and Beaumont's stories. There is also next to nothing about the harsh weather causing merchant to stray in the wood. Richard Andre portrayed both scenes.
The second reason is the form of the book we used to take the graphics out. Originally it's a so-called toy book (one of eight in the series) with cut out sections trying to add the third dimension to the book. Dean is credited as the inventor of the mechanism that moved by pulling the tab. Beauty and the Beast was printed in chromolithographic technique in 1873 as a part of Home Pantomime Toy Books in London.
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