In 1740, a woman named Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve wrote a tale titled “La Belle et la Bete,” which translates to “The Beauty and the Beast.” But what a lot of people don’t know is how she came up with the fairytale that inspired the Disney films that we all know and love today. It is said that she based her story on a real-life person named Petrus Gonsalvus and the woman he was betrothed to, Catherine. Today we are going to be telling you guys the real story behind the man that they based the Beast off of in the original fairy tale. And just a heads up, this story has a really sad ending after you learn about what happened to Petrus’s children...

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