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	Manon Lescaut - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Manon Lescaut is a novel by the abbé Prévost.
		Considered one of the greatest novels of the 18th century, it is very short; it is entirely free from improbable incident, it is penetrated by the truest and most cunningly managed feeling; and almost every one of its characters is a triumph of that analytic portraiture which is the secret of the modern novel.
		Lescaut and Des Grieux linger near, By talking to her through the bars, they learn that she is to be deported to America.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Manon_Lescaut (788 words)

	Manon Lescaut -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Manon Lescaut is a novel by (Click link for more info and facts about the abbé Prévost) the abbé Prévost.
		All dance a (A stately court dance in the 17th century) minuet, (Manon, Geronte and chorus: "All the golden praise you murmur."); when the men go to stroll along the boulevards, Des Grieux suddenly appears.
		The lovers rejoice in their freedom, but Manon hesitates at the thought of leaving her jewels and pretty frocks.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/manon_lescaut.htm (771 words)

	Manon Lescaut - Chapter VII
		I had not mentioned Manon's name; he knew nothing of her escape; so that his lecture was merely upon my own rash flight from St. Lazare, and upon his apprehensions lest, instead of profiting by the lessons of morality which I had received there, I should again relapse into dissipation.
		Lescaut had such a rapid and extravagant run of luck, that in an hour the young man was minus twelve hundred francs--all the money he had.
		Lescaut had refused to give him the required satisfaction, and the other swore, on quitting him, that he would take his life; a threat which he carried into execution the same night.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/lit/drama/ManonLescaut/chap7.html (2281 words)

	MANON LESCAUT by the Abbé Prévost - CHAPTER V
		Manon could not refuse him a few kisses: it was sealing her right to the money which he had just handed to her.
		Manon, with her usual gaiety, was several times on the point of spoiling the joke by her bursts of laughter.
		Lescaut and Manon were in an agony of fear during my recital, especially while I was drawing his portrait to the life: but his own vanity prevented him from recognising it, and I did it so well that he was the first to pronounce it extremely laughable.
	www.globusz.com /ebooks/Lescaut/00000015.htm (4353 words)

	Manon Lescaut - Puccini
		Lescaut is taking his sister to a convent to complete her education, but finding her to be greatly admired by the wealthy Geronte, is quite willing to play a negative part and let the old satyr plot with the landlord to abduct Manon.
		Lescaut, who has been carousing with the students, hints that, as Des Grieux is not wealthy and Manon loves luxury, he will soon be able to persuade her to desert her lover for the rich Treasurer-General.
		Manon, Lescaut, Geronte, and old beaus and abbés, who have come in with Geronte, form for the dance, and a lesson in the minuet begins.
	www.music-with-ease.com /puccini-manon-lescaut.html (748 words)

	MANON LESCAUT
		Des Grieux is struck by Manon's beauty and engages her in conversation.
		Manon has left Des Grieux for Geronte after their money ran out, but now she longs to return to her romantic life with Des Grieux.
		Lescaut arrives and warns them that Geronte has denounced Manon and that the police are on their way.
	www.geocities.com /airepuccini_english/MANONLESCAUT.html (492 words)

	Manon - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Manon
		Opera by Massenet (libretto by H Meilhac and P Gille, based on Prévost's novel Manon Lescaut), produced at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 19 January 1884.
		Manon and Des Grieux fall in love and elope, but De Brétigny persuades Manon to go with him instead.
		So the lad was looking rather sulky, as with listless fingers he turned over the pages of an elaborately illustrated edition of Manon Lescaut that he had found in one of the book-cases.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Manon (204 words)

	MANON LESCAUT by the Abbé Prévost - Chapter IV
		Manon furnished the supplies, for I was without a sou, and fearing that I might meet with some new impediment, she would not consent to my returning to my room at St. Sulpice for my purse.
		Manon at once returned to her house, and I went to wait for her at a side-gate of the garden of the Tuileries.
		I knew Manon thoroughly; I had already had abundant proof that, although faithful and attached to me under happier circumstances, she could not be depended upon in want: pleasure and plenty she loved too well to sacrifice them for my sake.
	www.globusz.com /ebooks/Lescaut/00000014.htm (7957 words)

	FRENCH 41
		Manon Lescaut maintains a consistently dignified language and offers not a single description of an erotically explicit scene.
		Manon Lescaut, young Des Grieux has a close association with each of three secondary male characters, Tiberge, Manon’s brother Lescaut, and Monsieur de T, who are however very different from one other.
		Manon Lescaut, Giacomo Puccini made a number of significant changes in the plot with which he was working.
	www.unc.edu /~fwvogler/fren41/spring/Prevostrs.html (315 words)

	Manon Lescaut by the Abbe Prevost : Chapter 9
		Manon promised to make some excuse for quitting her box for a moment, when she would come down and join me. The rest could be easily done.
		But, Manon, I tell you that my heart is pierced with sorrow at your treatment of me--treatment that is seldom inflicted but with the purpose of destroying one's life.
		Manon, Manon,' said I, sighing, `it is too late to give me tears after the death-blow you have inflicted.
	anitra.net /commonwealth/manon9.html (5867 words)

	pucciniana! giacomo puccini and manon lescaut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Manon Lescaut: opera in 4 acts, libretto by Marco Praga, Domenico Oliva, Luigi Illica, Giuseppe Giacosa, Giulio Ricordi et.al., after 'L'Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut' by Abbé Prevost, music by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), first performed on 1st February 1893 at the Teatro Regio, Turin, with the following cast:
		As printing the names of all six authors of the libretto would have seemed somewhat ludicrous, the opera was simply presented as Manon Lescaut, music by Giacomo Puccini (nowadays, the list of librettists has been restored, though Leoncavallo's name does not appear any more).
		Manon Lescaut was performed within the year in Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, St. Petersburg, Madrid and Hamburg.
	www.r-ds.com /opera/pucciniana/manon_lescaut.htm (652 words)

	Manon Lescaut by the Abbe Prevost : Chapter 10
		He therefore told him that the object was to make a dupe of his son; and that Manon was to receive, if she had not already received, ten thousand francs, which, according to our project, would be effectually lost to G---- M----, his heirs and assigns for ever.
		I recommended Manon to the attention of the porter, telling him that I was a person of some distinction, and promising him a considerable recompense.
		In returning to Le Chatelet, my only wish was to convey some refreshments to Manon, and to recommend her to the attention of the porter; for I had no hope of being permitted to see her; nor had I, as yet, had time to reflect on the best means of rescuing her.
	anitra.net /commonwealth/manon10.html (3967 words)

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		Manon Lescaut by the Abbe Prevost March, 1996 [Etext #468] [Date last updated: February 11, 2005] Project Gutenberg's Etext of Manon* Lescaut by the Abbe Prevost* ***This file should be named lesco10.txt or lesco10.zip**** Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER, lesco11.txt.
		Passionately in love as I felt with Manon, she knew how to convince me that she was equally so with me. So little did we restrain our fondness, that we had not even patience to reserve our caresses till we were alone.
		I mentioned the project to Manon, and explained to her that, besides every motive of filial love and duty, the weightier one of necessity should also have some influence; for our finances were sadly reduced, and I began to see the folly of thinking them, as I once did, inexhaustible.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext96/lesco10.txt (20369 words)

	Comparative Reviews of Recordings of Manon Lescaut: Classical CD Reviews- Jan 2001 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Illica's main contributions were: the injection of period atmosphere in Act II Manon's levée with the hairdresser, music-and-dancing-masters and probably the Madrigal; and, in Act III, the charming lamplighter's chanson plus an extended roll-call sequence from a few to twelve.
		In Massenet's opera we meet Manon and Des Grieux in their love nest after the elopement from the inn at Amiens, and before she leaves her hero for the riches of the older man. Furthermore, Des Grieux's father's involvement is covered.
		And there are echoes of the 'Liebestod' elsewhere particularly in the last act where Manon dies in the desert (and, we might assume, Des Grieux too, bringing the similarity between the Puccini and Wagner operas into even sharper focus).
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2001/Jan01/Manon_Lescaut.htm (1479 words)

	Intertexts: "Manon Lescaut, c'est lui": A study of point of view in Prevost's Manon Lescaut.(Critical Essay)@ HighBeam ...
		"Manon Lescaut, c'est lui": A study of point of view in Prevost's Manon Lescaut.(Critical Essay)
		In her book-length study of Manon Lescaut entitled The Unintended Reader, Naomi Segal states unequivocally that "the profound masculinity of the text proves that it is profoundly directed at a male readership" (xiii), and suggests that, when woman is totally excluded from language as Manon is, the aim is to make her marginal.
		And yet it is clear that this attempt to marginalize Manon has not succeeded.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:80849914&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (204 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Manon Lescaut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Manon is the anti-heroine, the woman-in-red, the Eve that gives her partner over to the fates as a result of her easily-compromised sensibility.
		Manon is one of the first unsympathetic heroines in literature (let's forget about Eve if we can), a precursor of Emma Bovary in many respects.
		MANON LESCAUT reminded me of that novel because the single moralizing theme-the wasted life of a talented young aristocrat who falls madly in love with a girl of dubious character-dominates so completely that nothing else really matters.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0785930787 (821 words)

	Manon Lescaut
		Des Grieux is warned by his friend Edmondo, who has overheard what Geronte is planning, and wastes no time in confessing to Manon that he is in love with her, a feeling which she reciprocates.
		Lescaut comforts Geronte; he tells him that it will not be long before Manon comes to him as he knows how fond of luxury she is.
		Manon has left Des Grieux, tired of living in modest circumstances, in favour of a more luxurious life with Geronte.
	www.bayerische.staatsoper.de /c.php/spielplan/v_inhaltsangabe.php?id=51&termin=&l=en&dom=dom1 (307 words)

	Amazon.com: Giacomo Puccini - Manon Lescaut / Robert Carsen · Silvio Varviso · Miriam Gauci · Flemish Opera: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Her acting and singing coalesce into that rarest of occurrences, especially in opera: a believable characterization summoning sympathy from the viewer for Manon's tragic demise and pleasure at witnessing the tremendous range of Gauci's talent.
		Romantic and compelling, Manon Lescaut tells the story of a young woman elevated to a life of fame and pleasure because of her beauty.
		Manon's rich lover was a grotesque, absurd, silly, comic opera clown, and the idea she would ever have touched him for any amount of money is unreal and farcical.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005NG0V?v=glance (1032 words)

	Classical Net Review - Puccini - Manon Lescaut
		The first of Puccini's operas to become popular, Manon Lescaut is a study of a composer reaching his youthful maturity.
		This Manon Lescaut is choppy, short-breathed, and brusque – faults I would not have expected to find in an Italian conductor.
		This is not the finest Manon Lescaut on the market, but it really is worth hearing for José Cura, who I promise you is the Next Big Thing in the opera world.
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/d/dgg63186a.html (563 words)

	Manon Lescaut - Giacomo Puccini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Manon is pretty, but is that enough to make the poet so crazy that he says on two occasions that he will kill himself and that he actually boards the prison ship with Manon to an unknown fate in America?
		Manon Lescaut, an opera that is not often produced, is that the audience gets an opportunity to understand where Puccini started his hugely successful opera career.
		Manon Lescaut is that stage director John Pascoe and Maestro Placido Domingo have moved the orchestral intermezzo from its usual place between Acts II and III.
	www.culturevulture.net /Opera2/ManonLescaut.htm (863 words)

	MANON LESCAUT - Palm Beach
		But fickle Manon deserts her penniless lover for a lavish lifestyle offered by elderly Geronte, whom she humiliates when her love returns.
		Dessi was always touching and dramatically effective, her death scene as the tattered and desolate Manon vividly sung, putting across the girl's despair and wistful regret with natural and subtle vocal acting.
		Soprano Daniela Dessì sang Manon with a full voiced energy and soaring lyricism.She embraced the sweep and line of the composer's melod phrases with an expressive and moving vocalism.
	www.fabioarmiliato.com /MANON_PalmBeach.htm (507 words)

	Manon Lescaut by the Abbe Prevost : Chapter 8
		I encouraged him, not only with praises, but with a substantial recompense; and without betraying the slightest distrust of Manon, I requested him, in the mildest manner, to keep strict watch upon all the foreigner's movements.
		He put a thousand questions to him, and at last tried to bribe him with large promises; and taking a letter from his pocket, he in vain entreated him, with the promise of some louis d'ors, to convey it to her.
		Manon gave him no time for speech-making; she held up the mirror before him: `Look, sir,' said she to him, `observe yourself minutely, and I only ask you then to do me justice.
	anitraweb.org /commonwealth/manon8.html (1217 words)

	PUCCINI Manon Lescaut Flemish Opera [IL]: DVD Reviews- November 2001 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In this Manon Lescaut, there are too many absurdities: ladies wear models of ships atop of their impossibly tall and intricate coiffures in the scene where Manon is shipped off to America; worse, in the same scene, Manon's fellow prostitutes parade like zombies in rich voluminous and spotless gowns.
		As when, for instance, Ordonez (looking as though he is old enough to be Manon's father) throws himself at Manon's feet in supplication after she has won him round again in Act II - it is just too embarrassing to watch.
		The witty irony and beauty of the minuet and 'L'oro, o Tirsi, è vaga e bella' in Act II is practically lost on this cast.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2001/Nov01/Puccini_Manon_Lescaut_DVD.htm (706 words)

	Manon Lescaut - by Giacomo Puccini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		After the beautiful Manon Lescaut enters an Inn filled with students, The Chevalier Des Grieux instantly falls in love.
		Manon returns Des Grieux's love but is soon seduced away from him to Geronte due to the ladder's extreme wealth.
		Lescaut's beautiful sister who is in love with Des Grieux, but easily seduced by money.
	www.stageagent.com /cb/info.pl/ti/manon_lescaut (196 words)

	Performance: Washington National Opera: Manon Lescaut Mar 27 - Apr 19, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bound for a French convent, Manon Lescaut decides to run off instead with the Chevalier des Grieux, an impoverished student.
		But her wealthy benefactor plots a revenge that sends foolish, frivolous Manon to despair in a distant land.
		"Manon", wrote Puccini to his publisher Giulio Ricordi in 1889, "is a heroine I believe in and therefore she cannot fail to win the heart of the public." This turned out to be a truly prophetic statement since none of Puccini's other world successes were received on their first nights as rapturously...
	www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showEvent&event=REWOA (387 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Unintended Reader: Feminism and Manon Lescaut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It has two principal aims: to analyse this story of a young man's passion for a femme fatale as it is presented by the narrator; and to suggest ways in which feminist criticism can help explain how the text operates.
		In Part I, Dr Segal offers a close reading of Manon Lescaut in which the narrator's relationship with language is the key issue.
		In the final part the author presents a feminist critique of Freud and Lacan, and develops thereby an original version of the Oedipus Complex which is brought to bear on Manon Lescaut.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0521307236 (247 words)

	The British Theatre Guide : Reviews - Manon Lescaut (Theatre Royal, Newcastle, and Touring)
		What a melodramatic piece Manon Lescaut is! The characters, the story and, of course, the music itself.
		With all due respect to Natalia Dercho (Manon) and Hugh Smith (Des Grieux), neither comes close to looking their supposed age by at least a decade and a half, which does make suspending disbelief a little difficult.
		I was much impressed, too, by Christopher Purves' singing as Lescaut, although it has to be said that, if Manon was eighteen, he looked more like her father than her brother.
	www.britishtheatreguide.info /reviews/manonnewcastle-rev.htm (420 words)

	Seattle Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On her way to a convent school, the beautiful Manon Lescaut meets a young and poor student, des Grieux. She abandons her brother, Lescaut, and another admirer, the wealthy Geronte di Ravoir, to elope with des Grieux to Paris in Geronte’s coach.
		In a rage, Geronte goes to the police, denouncing Manon as a prostitute.
		With the help of her brother, des Grieux joins her on the ship bound for America and later helps her to escape. But the escape proves fatal to the fragile Manon. Lost in the desert, she dies of thirst in des Grieux’s arms.
	www.seattleopera.org /operas/2004-2005/manon/synopsis.aspx (116 words)

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