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    Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles (UK: /ˌpreɪvoʊ dɛɡˈziːl/ PRAY-voh deg-ZEEL, US: /preɪˌvoʊ -/ pray-VOH -⁠, French: [ɑ̃twan fʁɑ̃swa pʁevo dɛɡzil]; 1 April...
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    [istwaʁ dy ʃ(ə)valje de ɡʁijø e d(ə) manɔ̃ lɛsko]) is a novel by Antoine François Prévost. Published in 1731, it is the seventh and final volume of Mémoires...
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    Paysan parvenu (1735) by Marivaux; Manon Lescaut (1731) by the abbé Antoine François Prévost (1731) and Le Paysan perverti (The Perverse Peasant) (1775), a...
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    Manon (category Adaptations of works by Antoine François Prévost)
    novel L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost. It was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 19 January 1884...
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    Manon Lescaut (Puccini) (category Adaptations of works by Antoine François Prévost)
    1731 novel Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux, et de Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost. The opera was first performed in 1893 in Turin, at the Teatro Regio. The...
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  • Manon 70 (category Films based on works by Antoine François Prévost)
    Saint-Laurent is loosely based on the 1731 novel Manon Lescaut by Antoine François Prévost. The original music was composed by Serge Gainsbourg. Manon is...
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  • L'histoire de Manon (category Adaptations of works by Antoine François Prévost)
    music by Jules Massenet and based on the 1731 novel Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost. The ballet was first performed by The Royal Ballet in London in 1974 with...
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  • The Lovers of Manon Lescaut (category Films based on works by Antoine François Prévost)
    and Roger Pigaut. It is based on the 1731 novel Manon Lescaut by Antoine François Prévost, which has been made into films on a number of occasions. The film's...
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    Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony (b. 1722) December 23 – Antoine François Prévost, French writer (b. 1697) Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference...
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    "cits" of the old city center. According to one French visitor, Antoine François Prévost, coffeehouses, "where you have the right to read all the papers...
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    Menier (1795–1853), entrepreneur and founder of Chocolat Menier Antoine François Prévost (1797–1863), novelist Alessandro Barnabò (1801–1874), Catholic...
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    Manon Lescaut (Auber) (category Adaptations of works by Antoine François Prévost)
    Angeles Theatre. The story only loosely resembles the original novel by Prévost (where, for instance, Lescaut is Manon's brother, not her cousin). There...
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  • Earl of Rochester, English poet and courtier (d. 1680) 1697 – Antoine François Prévost, French novelist and translator (d. 1763) 1721 – Pieter Hellendaal...
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  • Françoise de Graffigny (1695–1758) Antoine François Prévost (Antoine Francois Prevost d'Exiles) a/k/a Abbé Prévost (1697–1763) Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise...
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  • tables and in coffee houses". According to one French visitor, Antoine François Prévost, coffeehouses, "where you have the right to read all the papers...
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    Bellin's map of the Congo in Histoire Generale Des Voyages by Antoine François Prévost (1754) shows awareness of the river reaching further inland, to...
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  • career in exile far from Pari, but returned to the city to die Antoine François Prévost, the author of Manon Lescaut (1731) A reading of a work by Voltaire...
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    printed but in Amsterdam) and written in fact by Antoine François Prévost, better known as L'Abbé Prévost (1697-1763). The verses translated here appear...
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  • Manon Lescaut (1893), opera by Giacomo Puccini based on the Antoine François Prévost (Abbé Prévost) novel. The last scene (Act IV) is set in New Orleans, then...
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  • Manon opéra comique 5 acts Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, after Antoine François Prévost, L'histoire du chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut 19 January...
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  • Manon (film) (category Films based on works by Antoine François Prévost)
    Aubry. It is a loose adaptation of the 1731 novel Manon Lescaut by Abbé Prévost. The film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, and was a popular...
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    translated into French in part or in full, for instance by the abbé Antoine François Prévost, as well as into German. The Dutch translator of Clarissa was the...
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  • Beaumont-sur-Oise). Nicolas Antoine arrived in Quebec in 1703. In 1705, he married Angelique Jarret de Verchères (daughter of François Jarret de Verchères and...
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    A New and Comprehensive Gazetteer, Volume 4. T. Kelly. p. 459. Antoine-François Prévost (1757). Histoire générale des voyages ou Nouvelle collection de...
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    the novels of Choderlos de Laclos (Les Liaisons dangereuses), Antoine François Prévost (Manon Lescaut) and the poetry of Jacques Delille and Évariste...
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    When a Man Loves (category Films based on works by Antoine François Prévost)
    and features Dolores Costello in the frequently filmed story of Abbe Prevost's 1731 novel Manon Lescaut. The lovers suffer, but the film has an optimistic...
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    Views of the fort of Tranquebar, or "Dansborg", from Antoine François Prévost: Histoire générale des Voyages 15 vol. 1746–1759...
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  • Effen; La Vie de Marianne by Pierre de Marivaux; Manon Lescaut by Antoine François Prévost; Life of Sethos by Jean Terrasson 1732 in literature – The magazine...
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    The Maid of Artois (category Adaptations of works by Antoine François Prévost)
    in London, who based his work on Eugène Scribe's stage version of Abbé Prévost's novel Manon Lescaut. The opera opened on 27 May 1836, starring Maria Malibran...
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    the original fifteen volumes, by other authors following the death of Prévost in 1763. The Histoire translation is by no means always a word-for-word...
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