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
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.
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.
No Gaston is the villian from beauty and the beast and he is a man. Also Clayton the hunter in Tarzan.