Talk:Beast/@comment-30016491-20180316071954/@comment-1672596-20180316132110

To be fair, the initial Woolverton draft made clear that Beast was a duke, not an actual prince. Besides, we don't really know if he qualifies as a prince since he was only identified as such in the prologue (and considering the same prologue said the story took place in "a faraway land" despite it being explicitly mentioned twice that the location was in France, as if the French words being peppered in the dialogue wasn't enough of a hint to the story's actual setting), while in the film proper, none of the other characters, not even his own servants, ever directly indicated he was a prince, or indeed, any title of nobility or royalty beyond perhaps "master." At this rate, probably the only chance he has of being a prince is if he's like Escolas from Romeo and Juliet.

And yeah, while clearly set in France, it's pretty obviously not anywhere near Paris (if anything, based on it being located in a mountainous area, the short distance between the castle and the village, the overall architecture, the amount of blonde people in the village, and the fact that they have beer being sold at the village, not to mention the wine bottles near the Bimbettes' table at the wedding having a white ribbon on the bottlenecks, it's more likely to be set within the Alsace region of France).