Manon Lescaut

by Antoine François Prévost · first published 1731

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 (known only as the Chevalier des Grieux) and a common woman (Manon Lescaut). 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. The story was first published in 1731 as the final volume of Prévost's serial novel Memoirs and Adventures of a Man of Quality.

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Genre:

Memoir, Romantic fiction

Original language:

French

Year page:

1731