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Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

1711 - 1780

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Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont (French: [ʒan maʁi ləpʁɛ̃s də bomɔ̃] ⓘ; 26 April 1711 – 8 September 1780) was a French author who wrote the best-known version of Beauty and the Beast, an abridged adaptation of the 1740 fairy tale by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. Born to a middle-class family, she was raised alongside her younger sister, Catherine Aimée. Both were provided education at a convent school and stayed on as teachers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont has received more than 550,149 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont is the 1,223rd most popular writer (down from 1,189th in 2019), the 1,389th most popular biography from France (down from 1,372nd in 2019) and the 178th most popular French Writer.

Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont is most famous for her 18th century fairy tales, including "The Beauty and the Beast" and "Puss in Boots."

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  • 550k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.81

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont ranks 1,223 out of 7,302. Before her are Johannes Valentinus Andreae, Eiji Yoshikawa, Annemarie Schwarzenbach, Jan Długosz, Raymond Radiguet, and Wilhelm Weitling. After her are Sarah, Duchess of York, James Anderson, Brian Tracy, Giovanni Verga, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, and Harry Harrison.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1711, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont ranks 9. Before her are Mikhail Lomonosov, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Laura Bassi, William IV, Prince of Orange, Barbara of Portugal, and Wenzel Anton, Prince of Kaunitz-Rietberg. After her are Ablai Khan, Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine, Georg Wilhelm Richmann, Frederick August I, Duke of Oldenburg, Jean-Joseph de Mondonville, and William Boyce. Among people deceased in 1780, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont ranks 6. Before her are Maria Theresa, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, Bernardo Bellotto, Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, and Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria. After her are Jacques-Germain Soufflot, Francesco III d'Este, Duke of Modena, Duchess Luise of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Victor Amadeus II, Prince of Carignano, and Johann Ludwig Krebs.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont ranks 1,389 out of 6,770. Before her are Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580), Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard (1476), Mistinguett (1875), Raymond Radiguet (1903), Henri Dutilleux (1916), and Louis Auguste, Duke of Maine (1670). After her are Bertrade de Montfort (1070), François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville (1818), Vincent of Beauvais (1190), Laurent Schwartz (1915), Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle (1712), and Renata of Lorraine (1544).

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Among WRITERS In France

Among writers born in France, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont ranks 178. Before her are Comtessa de Dia (1175), Joachim du Bellay (1522), Pierre de Marivaux (1688), Roger Caillois (1913), Léo Taxil (1854), and Raymond Radiguet (1903). After her are Roland Topor (1938), Edmond François Valentin About (1828), Jean-Marie Roland de la Platière (1734), Paul Scarron (1610), Maurice Barrès (1862), and Michel Verne (1861).

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