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In Disney's live-action adaptation "Beauty and the Beast" (2017), the Beast is implied to be the son of King Louis XIV of France (1638 – 1715). In the film, Beast's mother died when he was a child, and his father is called a "a cruel, vain tyrant". Did this match Louis's personality in real life?

by /u/Obversa in /r/AskHistorians

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