who wrote original beauty and the beast
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, French author (c. 1695-Paris, 1755). She is considered the original author of the story of Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la BÃªte) which is the oldest known variants of the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast (http://www.endicott-studio.com/rdrm/f...).