Abbé Prévost

Abbé Prévost
Portrait by Georg Friedrich Schmidt, 1745
Born
Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles

(1697-04-01)1 April 1697
Hesdin, Artois, France
Died25 November 1763(1763-11-25) (aged 66)
Courteuil, Picardy, France

Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles (UK: /ˌpreɪvoʊ dɛɡˈziːl/ PRAY-voh deg-ZEEL, US: /preɪˌvoʊ -/ pray-VOH -⁠, French: [ɑ̃twan fʁɑ̃swa pʁevo dɛɡzil]; 1 April 1697 – 25 November 1763), usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost, was a French priest, author, and novelist. He is best remembered for Manon Lescaut (1731), a romance and adventure novel, the most reprinted novel in French literary history.

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