<P> Years later, in the village of Villeneuve, Belle dreams of adventure and brushes off advances from Gaston, an arrogant former soldier . Lost in the forest, Belle's father Maurice seeks refuge in the Beast's castle, but the Beast imprisons him for stealing a rose . Belle ventures out in search for him and finds him locked in the castle dungeon . The Beast agrees to let her take Maurice's place . </P> <P> Belle befriends the castle's servants, who treat her to a spectacular dinner . When she wanders into the forbidden west wing and finds the rose, the Beast, enraged, scares her into the woods . She is cornered by wolves, but the Beast rescues her and is injured in the process . A friendship develops as Belle nurses his wounds . The Beast shows Belle a gift from the enchantress, a book that transports readers wherever they want . Belle uses it to visit her childhood home in Paris, where she discovers a plague doctor mask . Belle realises that she and her father were forced to leave her mother's deathbed as her mother succumbed to the plague . </P> <P> In Villeneuve, Gaston sees rescuing Belle as an opportunity to win her hand in marriage and agrees to help Maurice . When Maurice learns of his ulterior motive and rejects him, Gaston abandons him to the wolves . Maurice is rescued by the beggar Agathe, but when he tells the townsfolk of Gaston's crime, Gaston convinces them to send Maurice to an insane asylum . </P> <P> After sharing a romantic dance with the Beast, Belle discovers her father's predicament using a magic mirror . The Beast releases her to save Maurice, giving her the mirror to remember him with . At Villeneuve, Belle proves Maurice's sanity by revealing the Beast in the mirror to the townsfolk . Realizing that Belle loves the Beast, Gaston has her thrown into the asylum carriage with her father and rallies the villagers to follow him to the castle to slay the Beast . Maurice and Belle escape and Belle rushes back to the castle . </P>

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