Antoine François

Antoine François (1697-1763), also Abbé Prévost D'exiles, was a French romancer, born in Heslin, Artois. He was educated by the Jesuits, and became a Benedictine monk, but proving refractory, fled to Holland and England. He wrote several novels, but his fame rests on one entitled "Manon Lescaut," a work of genius, charming at once in matter and style. It is a "story," says Professor Saintsbury, "chiefly remarkable for the perfect simplicity and absolute life-likeness of the character-drawing". The novel derives its name from the subject of it, a young girl named Manon.

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