In the canon
Manon Lescaut
Abbe Prevost
- Form
- Form Novella
- Year
- Year 1731
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 160
At an inn in Amiens, a girl gets down from a carriage on her way to a convent she never chose, and a seventeen-year-old bound for the Church decides, before she crosses the yard, that his life belongs to her instead. That single glance is the whole of the Chevalier des Grieux's undoing.
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