Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut

Manon Lescaut

Author

Abbé Prévost

Language

French

Year

1731

Country

France

Genre

Novel

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The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut  is a novel by Antoine François Prévost. It tells a tragic love story about a nobleman and a common woman. Their decision to live together without marriage is the start of a moral decline that also leads to gambling, fraud, theft, murder, and Manon's death as a deportee in New Orleans.