Manon Lescaut
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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 withou
Title page of the standalone 1753 edition
Manon Lescaut and Her Lover, Des Grieux, Are Set Ashore in Louisiana (1896), by Albert Lynch
Antoine François Prévost in 1745
1827 engraving of Manon crying, consoled by des Grieux, during one of their stints of poverty
Manon Lescaut (Puccini)
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Manon Lescaut is an Italian-language opera in four acts composed by Giacomo Puccini between 1889 and 1892 to a libretto by Luigi Illica, Giuseppe Giacosa, Marco Praga and Domenico Oliva, based on the
Manon Lescaut
…films, and particularly operas. The most renowned adaptations are the operas Manon Lescaut by Daniel Auber (1856), Manon by Jules Massenet (1884), and Manon Lescaut by Giacomo Puccini (1893). The seventeen-year-old Chevalier des Grieux, a seminary student and the younger son of a noble family, falls in love at first…
Postcard commemorating the premiere
Advertisement for libretto, 1917
Manon's costume for act 2 designed by Adolfo Hohenstein for the world premiere
![Set design for act 2 by Ugo Gheduzzi [it] for the world premiere performance](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Manon_Lescaut_Act_2_set.jpg/500px-Manon_Lescaut_Act_2_set.jpg)
Set design for act 2 by Ugo Gheduzzi [it] for the world premiere performance