Writing
April 26, 1711
Died at age 69
September 8, 1780
Date of Death
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).