beauty and the beast took place in france.
beauty and the beast took place in france.
where did beauty and the beast take place?
france
in the "fairest" story "lamia", it is revealed that beauty hides a dark secret. she is in fact a lamia who was driven from her home after a man got her in the family way. the man's wife had some friends run lamia out of town. they followed her to another world, where lamia met a beautiful woman. lamia, having so recently been abused for beauty's sake, hated the woman on sight and killed her, because "everything beautiful leads to ruin in the end". lamia then took the woman's form in order to adopt her peaceful and simple way of life. she kept the form so long that the woman's personality became her own and she became what she was merely pretending to be. she met beast, and they fell in love. but every few decades, beauty becomes herself again and becomes lamia. every time, beast tries to catch her in time and lock her away. but sometimes she escapes, and embarks on a killing rampage, targeting rapists and men who abuse women (going after innocents is "not her style"). every time, beast assumes the identities of famous heroes of detective fiction (such as auguste dupin, sherlock holmes, hercule poirot, sam spade and philip marlowe) and has to play detective and stop her before the mundy authorities can catch her (the fictional identities he assumed may or may not indicate lamia has already managed to escape to the united kingdom and france, as well as the united states of america). bigby wolf has already threatened beast to deal with the matter permanently - even if it means killing beast as well. beauty never remembers the incidents afterward and beast never told her the truth (though he tried to write her a letter at least once with a typewriter). strangely, beast is capable of transforming at will in that story - decades before frau totenkinder allows him to do so (although she may have sold him a charm or a potion for the duration of his mission, as she has occasionally done for other fables).
list of fables characters (new york fables)
next he went up in class again when he ran in the g1 alfred g. vanderbilt handicap running up against kings bishop stakes winner the big beast. at the start, the big beast and favorite tale fought for the early lead while rock fall stayed behind in fourth and then third. by the far turn favorite tale had the lead but then began to fade, letting the big beast take over the lead. then out of the blue, rock fall took off and got the lead by a nose. then the big beast had the lead. their two heads were inseparable and at the wire it was too close to call. after minutes of waiting the race was official. the big beast had lost by a nose and rock fall would be victorious
rock fall (horse)