Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier de Villandon (1711–1799), better known by her pen name Madame Leprince de Beaumont, was a French author and educator. She is best known for her fairy tales, which were published in her 1756 collection Magasin des enfants. Her most famous work is the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast", which was first published in her 1757 collection Contes de ma mère l'Oye. Leprince de Beaumont was born in Dorset, England, and moved to France at the age of seven. She was educated at a convent in Caen, Normandy, and later became a governess. She wrote several novels, plays, and educational works, as well as her fairy tales. Her works were popular in both France and England, and she was praised for her moral lessons and her use of simple language. Leprince de Beaumont's work Think Before You Speak; Or, The Three Wishes was published around 1810. It is a moral tale about a young man who is granted three wishes by a fairy. He learns the importance of thinking before he speaks, and the consequences of his actions.
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