To Wrangle A Witch by Jane Cousins6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() (The Duke’s German accent is authentic, but it’s possible he is too used to his immigrant parents’ pronunciation.) It would explain why the Duke incorrectly corrects the pronunciation of ‘Weselton’ as ‘WESS-ul-tun!’ when a German native would pronounce it ‘VAY-zel-tun’. Prince Adam and Belle probably fled France to avoid the guillotine but were still well-off enough to win favour with the German nobility. ![]() How can he be the grandson of a French prince?īecause something happened between those two dates… The French Revolution ![]() However, Frozen‘s Duke is from a German town called Weselton. If we take an estimate from the original story’s publication ( La Belle et la Bête in 1740), Beauty and the Beast‘s French setting is probably somewhere in the late to mid-1700s. Based on similar est imates, Frozen is likely set in the mid-1800s. This is because he is the familial link that connects Beauty and the Beast and Tarzan. Balding is hereditary – the Duke’s fooling no-one. ![]()
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