Like the Marchioness, Beauty willingly goes to,
but then is forced to submit to the will of a ferocious beast.
Unlike the Marchioness, however, Beauty is able to tame
the beast by being a“complying, prudent, and discreet wife”, and effect the beast's transformation into a prince.
Interestingly, in de Beaumont's version of Madame de Ganges's tale, written as a moral for young women,
she seemingly attributes some culpability to the Marchioness in her own downfall.