France's top comic strip artist has accused the government of the "worst censorship in publishing history" after it cancelled a 900,000-copy order of his modern-day take on Beauty and the Beast.

France's education ministry has cancelled an order for "Beauty ... the book intended for publication showed the original 1756 text by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. Jul's accompanying cartoons ...

The French government has been accused of censorship after it cancelled a book order for 800,000 copies of Beauty and the Beast, which were to be given free to children this summer. According to ...