Well every story with a prince, princess and magic is counted as a fairytale.
No, he was just "the beast"
Vincent
yes. It was a french fairy tale.
Sleeping Beauty Beauty and the Beast
beauty and the beast
No, "Beauty and the Beast" is not a Grimm fairy tale. It is a French fairy tale written by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. The Grimm brothers are best known for collecting and publishing German folktales.
I would describe it as a fairy tale, rather than a legend.
It's a traditional fairy tale. It's fiction.
Jedo and Musarat
Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve is credited as the author of the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast" in 1740, other translations and variations by others followed later.
A French fairy tale about a beautiful and gentle young woman who is taken to live with a man-beast in return for a good deed the Beast did for her father. Beauty is kind to the well-mannered Beast but pines for her family until the Beast allows her to visit them.
No Gaston is the villian from beauty and the beast and he is a man. Also Clayton the hunter in Tarzan.