This family link would also explain why the Duke is so terrified of ‘sorcery’ and magical women with long fair hair.Ĭome to think of it, who is this ‘enchantress’?Ĭlearly the legend of his grandfather falling afoul of a magical enchantress have been passed down in the Duke’s family (though sadly not accompanying the lesson about vanity – as proven by his poorly-attached toupee). (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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