Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

Born 1711-04-26 · Rouen, France

Died 1780-09-08

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).