A SENTENCE BY MADAME LEPRINCE DE BEAUMONT

November 19, 2011

As the spectators drifted in, the drums began to beat, the hobby-horses to revolve, the showmen to shout, the marionettes to perform in their little theatre.

Pretty good sentence, eh? Who’d guess it was part of Madame de Beaumont’s delightful 1756 version of ‘Beauty and the Beast’?

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