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Antoine François Prévost

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Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles, usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost (1697–1763), was a French priest, author, and novelist. He is best remembered for Manon Lescaut (1731), a romance and adventure novel, the most reprinted novel in French literary history.

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“You wish me to love you: this is the man whom I love, and whom I have sworn to love during my whole life: make the comparison yourself.”

— Antoine François Prévost《Manon Lescaut》

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Book · 1731

Manon Lescaut

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.

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