![]() In 1748, having separated from Beaumont in reaction to his marital infidelities, she left France to become a governess in London. ![]() ![]() However, it is known that she bore a daughter, named Elisabeth, by Beaumont. Details of a second marriage to Grimard de Beaumont are unclear. Her first marriage was in 1737 to the dancer Antoine Malter. ![]() ĭe Beaumont then obtained a prestigious position as a singing teacher to the children at the Court of the Duke of Lorraine, Stanisław Leszczyński, at Lunéville. Upon completing their educations, they remained there as teachers from 1725 to 1735. She and her younger sister were subsequently mentored by two wealthy women who enrolled them into the convent school at Ernemont in Rouen. She lost her mother when she was eleven years old. Her third husband was the French spy Thomas Pichon (1757–1760).Ĭhristened Marie-Barbe, she was born in 1711 in Rouen, the daughter of Barbe Plantart and Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, and died in 1778. ![]() Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont ( French: ( listen) 26 April 1711 – 8 September 1780) was a French novelist who wrote the best known version of Beauty and the Beast. ![]()
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