Manon Lescaut

by abbé Prévost

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"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.

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Topics: Adventure stories · Lescaut, Manon, 1689-1721 -- Fiction · Man-woman relationships -- Fiction