Prévost, abbé 1697-1763 creator text utu 1996 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Manon Lescaut" by Abbé Prévost is a novel first published in 1731. It tells the tragic love story of a young nobleman and a common woman who choose to live together unmarried, beginning a moral descent into gambling, fraud, and crime. Their passionate relationship leads them from Paris to imprisonment and ultimately to deportation in New Orleans. Narrated retrospectively by the Chevalier des Grieux, this confessional tale shocked eighteenth-century readers with its realistic depiction of society's underbelly and became one of French literature's most reprinted classics. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manon_Lescaut Release date is 1996-03-01 Original publication data not identified Adventure stories Man-woman relationships -- Fiction Lescaut, Manon, 1689-1721 -- Fiction PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/468 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/468 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133032.0 468