Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

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Born April 25, 1711
Died September 7, 1780
Place of Birth Rouen, France

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).