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Gaston

Other names

Gaston LeGume (in an early draft)
The Greatest Hunter in the Whole World
Monsieur Gaston

Likes

Himself, eggs, beautiful women (mainly Belle), attention, ale, beer, hunting and killing animals, making fun of Maurice, getting his way, respect, anti-intellectualism, abusing LeFou, praise, showing off, winning, singing, being right

Dislikes

Humiliation, Belle in love with anyone but him, rejection, women's independence and intelligence, LeFou's bumbling, not getting his way, disrespect, animals, books, intellectualism, losing, being wrong

Powers and abilities

Strength
Hunting skills

Paraphernalia

Blunderbuss
Bow
Arrows
Quiver
Hunting knife

“He's handsome, all right, and rude and conceited and... Oh, Papa, he's not for me.”

―Belle expressing her dislike for Gaston to her father

Gaston is the main antagonist of Disney's 1991 animated feature film Beauty and the Beast. He is an arrogant and chauvinistic hunter, who is greedily determined to have Belle's hand in marriage, even by force if necessary. His obsession turns him from a harml

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Gaston (Beauty and the Beast)

Beauty and the Beast character

This article is about the character. For the song, see Gaston (song).

Fictional character

Gaston is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Walt Disney Pictures' animated film Beauty and the Beast (1991). Voiced by American actor and singer Richard White, Gaston is an arrogant and ruthless hunter whose unrequited feelings for the intellectual Belle drive him to murder his adversary, the Beast, once he realizes she cares for him instead. Gaston serves as a foil personality to the Beast, who was once as vain as Gaston prior to his transformation.

Gaston is a character original to Disney, as he is not present in the original fairy tale. Imagined by screenwriter Linda Woolverton, who based the character on the ex-boyfriends she dated in her past,^{[citation needed]} Gaston was developed specifically for Disney's adaptation of Beauty and the Beast because the studio felt that the film could benefit from a strong villain, who is lacking in the original story. As the character evolves from a non-

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Quick Info

Born

13 August 1842
Nimes, Gard, Languedoc, France

Died

23 February 1917
Paris, France

Summary

Gaston Darboux was a French mathematician who made important contributions to differential geometry and analysis and the Darboux integral is named after him.

Biography

Gaston Darboux was the son of François Darboux (1800-1849) and Alix Gourdoux (1811-1887). François was a clothes merchant and haberdasher, the son of Antoine Darboux (1764-1803) and Magdelaine Amalric (died 1812), who married Alix Gourdoux in Nîmes on 17 September 1841. Gaston was born in a house which was a converted chapel of the cathedral. The date of his birth is given by various sources as 13 August or 14 August, and there is genuine confusion here which we should explain. His birth certificate clearly gives 1 a.m. on 14 August but Gaston always maintained that he was born at midnight on 13 August. He always gave 13 August when asked for his date of birth and, in fact, his gravestone gives 13 August, so we have given that date on this biography.

Gaston had a younger brother, Jean