Prévost d'Exiles, Antoine François, or Abbé Prévost, a French romancer, born in Heslin, Artois; was educated by the Jesuits, and became a Benedictine monk, but proving refractory, fled to Holland and England; wrote several novels, but his fame rests on one entitled “Manon Lescaut,” a work of genius, charming at once in matter and style; a “story,” says Professor Saintsbury, “chiefly remarkable for the perfect simplicity and absolute life-likeness of the character-drawing”; derives its name from the subject of it, a young girl named Manon (1697‒1763).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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