yes. It was a french fairy tale.
No, he was just "the beast"
Vincent
It is called "Beauty and the Beast" or sometimes "Tale as Old as Time"
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Beauty and the Beast A Latter-Day Tale - 2007 is rated/received certificates of: USA:PG USA:PG (DVD rating)
Faerie Tale Theatre - 1982 Beauty and the Beast 3-6 is rated/received certificates of: Argentina:Atp
Stories from My Childhood - 1998 Beauty and the Beast - A Tale of the Crimson Flower - 1.10 was released on: USA: 1998
Beauty and the Beast (Celine Dion & Peabo Bryson)
I would describe it as a fairy tale, rather than a legend.
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.