Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

See also: Beaumont

Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont , born Vaimboult (April 26th 1711 with Rouen - September 8th 1780 with Chavanod) is a Romance French cière , auteure many Conte S become of traditional of the Littérature of childhood and youth.

Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont is regarded as the first writer to have voluntarily adopted a simple style really adapted to the young readers. Although it expresses its mistrust towards the tales which it considers “pernicious for the children”, it is especially by this kind that it is still read.

Its work

In 1748, Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont publishes in Nancy its first novel, the Triumph of the truth , which it gives to the king of Poland and Duc of Lorraine, Stanislas Leszczyński, with Lunéville. But it is in the Store of the children , published in 1757, that figure a tale, summary of the first version written by another novelist, Gabrielle-Suzanne of Villeneuve, which will bring the fame to him: the Beautiful one and the Animal .

Works

  • Triumph of the truth, or Memories of Mr. of the Villette (1748)
  • Letter in answer to the marvellous Year (1748)
  • the New Francois, store or instructive Library and amusing (1750-51)
  • Letters of Mrs. Of Montier to the marchioness of ***, his/her daughter, with the answers, where one finds the most delicate lessons the most purified and councils… to be used as rule in the state of the marriage (1756)
  • Magasin of the teenagers, or Dialogs of wise controlling with its pupils of the first distinction (1760)
  • Principles of the sacred History, put by requests and answers, for the instruction of youth (1761)
  • Instructions for the young ladies which enter the world and marry, their duties in this state and towards their enfans (1764)
  • Lettres of Emerance with Lucie (1765)
  • Mémoires of Madam the Baroness of Batteville, or the perfect Widow (1766)
  • the News Clarice, history true (1767)
  • Magasin of the enfans, or Dialogs of wise controlling with its pupils of the first distinction, in which one makes think, speak, act young people according to the genius, the temperament and the inclinations of one each one… one gives to it a summary of the crowned history, fable, geography, etc, the whole filled of useful reflections and tales moral (1756-London)
  • Magasin of the poor, craftsmen, servants and people of countryside (1768)
  • the American ones, or the Proof of the Christian religion by the natural lights (1770)
  • complete Éducation, or Shortened universal history, interfered with geography and chronology (1772)
  • moral Contes (1774)
  • devotion lit, or store of the excessively pious women (1779)

Tales on line

  • Dawn and Aimée
  • the beautiful one and the animal
  • Belote and Laidronette
  • Tale of the three wishes
  • Tale of the fisherman and the traveller
  • Joliette
  • curiosity
  • the widow and her two daughters
  • the Prince charming
  • the Prince Chéri
  • the Prince Désir
  • Prince Fatal and the Prince Fortuné
  • the Prince Tity

Source

  • Marc Soriano, Guide of the literature for youth , Hatchet, 1974. Rééd. Delagrave, 2002.

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