HISTORY'S REAL BEAUTY & THE BEAST: PETRUS & CATHERINE GONSOLVUS

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2017

⏱️ 11 minutes

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"History's Real Beauty and The Beast: Petrus and Anne Gonsalvus": This is a follow up to our recent episode titled "BEAUTY AND THE BEAST", which gave the abridged version of the Adult Fairy Tale written by Marie de Villanueve in 1748. It is very possible that Villanueve's inspiration may have come from the lives of Petrus and Catherine Gonsalvus, who were French courtisans best known for Petrus's very unusual appearance- looking more "beast" than man, with a full covering of long hair all over his body. The true story is so incredible that it seems invented- but it is documented. You are left to decide of they were the inspiration for Beauty and the Beast. Link to previous episode: www.1001storiespodcast.com. #beautyandthebeast Check out our new E Book (May 2018) and leave us a nice review Thanks! https://www.amazon.com/Classic-Short-Stories-Fireside-Collection-ebook/dp/B07CRW2RZ9/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1525854517&sr=8-4&keywords=kindle+books+1001+classic+short+stories Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:26.0	Search zero with an ex because healthy business is beautiful business. You're going to. Oh, Welcome to another episode for 1001 classic short stories and tales. This one a continuation of the Beauty and the Beast story
1:06.0	which began with our last episode the Catherine Beaumont version of Beauty and the Beast
1:11.3	which was an abridged shorter version of Villanueaves, 1748, full-length
1:17.1	fairy tale.
1:18.8	Some researchers believe that Villanueaves Beauty and the Beast was derived from a true story that of
1:25.2	Petrus and Catherine Gonzales. And that incredible true story is offered here
1:30.6	in history's true beauty and the Beast. We'll present you with the story and let
1:36.4	you be the judge. Enjoy. Our story behind the story begins in 1537 when Pedro Gonzalez was born on the Spanish
1:46.7	island of Tenerife in the canaries off the coast of Spain. He was a descendant of
1:52.1	Menzies, the king of the Aborigines, who had been overwhelmed and enslaved by Spanish conquest in 400 AD.
1:59.0	Petras was described as a mouchacho moyhermozo or very hairy boy whose face and body was covered
2:07.0	with a fine down of soft dark red hair, so much so that he looked more like a wolf than a boy.
2:15.4	And that's how he was raised.
2:17.4	At the age of ten he was loaded up in a cage and shipped to King Charles V
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