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Beauty and The Beast

This 3-sentence summary provides the essential details and high-level plot of the story: The merchant promises his daughters gifts but gets lost in a storm, finding shelter in a mysterious castle belonging to a terrifying beast; the beast agrees to spare the merchant's life if he sends his youngest daughter Beauty to be his prisoner; Beauty comes to care for the beast and when she realizes she has missed her promise to return, she rushes back to the castle and finds the beast dying, declaring her love for him and breaking the spell that turned him into a beast.

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Beauty and The Beast

This 3-sentence summary provides the essential details and high-level plot of the story: The merchant promises his daughters gifts but gets lost in a storm, finding shelter in a mysterious castle belonging to a terrifying beast; the beast agrees to spare the merchant's life if he sends his youngest daughter Beauty to be his prisoner; Beauty comes to care for the beast and when she realizes she has missed her promise to return, she rushes back to the castle and finds the beast dying, declaring her love for him and breaking the spell that turned him into a beast.

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This book is published by Les éditions Caramel

Author: Tales inspired from Andersen, Grimm and Perrault


Illustrator: Jesús Lopez Pastor
Once upon a time was a merchant who had three daughters.
One day, while preparing to go on his travels, he promised to bring each one
of them a gift.
Beauty, the youngest and the kindest, asked her father to bring her only a red
rose, because she loved roses very much.
When the merchant was returning home, he was caught in a sudden storm and
got lost in the forest.
He saw a huge castle and, as the door was opened, he went inside to shelter.
“Anybody home?” said the merchant but no one responded.
Nobody was there, but he noticed a huge table laid with delicious food.
The merchant had been travelling for a long time and was hungry so he sat
and ate a hearty meal.

After this good meal and overcome with curiosity, he decided to visit the
castle but it was empty. As he was now very tired, he went upstairs, found
magnificent rooms and soon fell asleep on a bed in one of them.
The next morning, he goes down and enters the room, where he dined the
night before and finds a rich breakfast served on the table.
“What a strange host!” he thinks whilst he is eating his breakfast.
As he left the castle to head back home, he saw a beautiful garden full of red
roses. He remembered his favourite daughter’s wish and plucked a red rose
for her. Instantly, out of the rose garden sprang a horrible beast wearing
splendid clothes. With a terrifying voice, the beast said:
“Ungrateful man! I gave you food and shelter, you slept in my bed and now
you steal my favourite flower. I shall put you to death!”
Trembling with fear, the merchant said to the Beast, “Please forgive me. The
rose wasn’t for me, it was for my daughter, Beauty. Red roses are her
favourite flowers!”
“I shall spare your life on the condition that you bring me your daughter.
She will be my prisoner! ” replied the Beast.

When he reached home, the now desperate merchant told his three daughters
about his dreadful adventure.
Immediately Beauty reassured her father and said, “Dear father, I’ll do
anything for you.
Don’t worry, you’ll be able to keep your promise and save your life.
Take me to the castle. I don’t mind becoming the prisoner of the beast.”
The merchant, very worried about his daughter, refused.
But she insisted and knew how to convince him. He hugged his daughter
gratefully and the next morning, both took the road to the castle.

The merchant and Beauty arrived at the castle.


When Beauty saw the Beast, her blood ran cold.
But father and daughter were surprised by the welcome they received.
The Beast behaved like a prince. He complimented Beauty on her courage in
coming to live in the castle with him and told the merchant never to return to
the castle. He took her around the castle and showed her the bedroom she
was to have. The room was splendid, filled with lots of books that Beauty
liked, several bouquets of roses and a basket containing embroidery
material!
At the beginning, Beauty was frightened of the Beast, but as the days passed
busy reading books and sewing, she grew to like him.
Indeed, he was very amicable and courteous toward her.
Very often the master of the castle, sat down for many hours, having
conversations.
Then, one day, the Beast asked, “Beauty, would you be my wife?”
Taken by surprise, Beauty did not know what to say.
She was afraid that the Beast would become angry but was afraid to marry
someone so ugly.
With a hesitant voice, she finally replied, “I … I’m very flattered … but I
cannot accept.”
The Beast was disappointed but not angry and left the room.
A little later, the Beast gave her a magic mirror and said, “I know you miss
your family. Look in the mirror and you will see them.”
Then one morning, the Beast finds Beauty in tears.
She explains what she saw in the mirror was not good.
Her father was very sick. She begged him:
“Oh! How I wish I could see him, before it’s too late!”
“You know you can’t leave this castle!” said the beast angrily.
But, after a little while, being moved by Beauty’s despair and tears, the Beast
felt sorry for her and said,
“If you promise that you will return to the castle within seven days, I’ll let
you go and see your father.”
Beauty promised faithfully and immediately left the castle.
Soon, Beauty arrived at her father’s house. He was overjoyed at seeing
Beauty again and embraced her lovingly. In fact, the merchant was sick of
immense grief. Beauty stayed beside him and took good care of him.
She talked for hours telling him that the Beast was really very good and kind.
Soon, the merchant became completely well again.
Beauty was so happy with her family that she completely forgot about the
Beast and that seven days had long past. Then one night, Beauty had a terrible
dream. She dream that the Beast was dying and calling her in his agony,
“Come back! Come back to me!” he pleaded.
She then realized that the seven days had long past.
That night Beauty also remembered the promise she had made to the Beast.
Beauty convinced her father that it would be all right and returned to the
castle.
She walked around all the rooms and called for the Beast, but there was no
reply. She went into the garden and found the Beast lying at the foot of a tree.
“I do hope he isn’t dead,” Beauty thought miserably.
She now realized how much she loved this strange creature.
Beauty cried bitterly, “Don’t die! Please don’t die! I’ll marry you!” she said
and she kissed him. At that moment, the Beast turned magically into a young
and handsome prince.
“A wicked witch turned me into an ugly monster and only the love of a
maiden willing to marry me as I was could transform me back into my real
self!” said the prince.
Not long afterwards they got married and lived happily in the castle and in
the garden where the prince grew many red roses!
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Three Little Pigs
Beauty and the Beast
Goldilocks and the 3 Bears
The Little Thumb
Puss in Boots
Little Red Riding Hood
Sleeping Beauty
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Cinderella
Peter Pan
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