A Note on the Original Text of "Beauty and the Beast" Author(s): Jaques Barchilon Source: The Modern Language Review, Vol. 56, No. 1, (Jan., 1961), pp. 81-82 Published by: Modern Humanities Research Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3721693 Accessed: 12/05/2008 09:59
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A NOTE ON THE ORIGINAL TEXT OF 'BEAUTY AND THE BEAST'

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In January 1957 the Houghton Library at Harvard added to its shelves a seemingly obscure, well-bound work in two volumes entitled Le Magasin des enfans, by Madame Le Prince de Beaumont. In its day the Magasin was popular throughout Europe.1 This edition, hitherto unknown, of the Magasin, contains one of the most famous of all fairy tales, 'La Belle et la Bete' ('Beauty and the Beast'). The Houghton Library copy is dated 1756, one year earlier than any other