Abbe Prevost

Abbe Prevost (1697-1763) had a very eventful life, including a spell in an English prison for forgery. At one time soldier, priest, Protestant convert, he was also a journalist, pamphleteer, translator of Richardson's novels and in his declinging years a hack writer. All of his prolific output of novels, biographies and histories has long since been forgotten, with the exception of Manon Lescaut, his masterpiece.

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