Prévost d'Exiles

Prévost d'Exiles

(French prevo dɛɡzil) n (Biography) Antoine François (ɑ̃twan frɑ̃swa), known as Abbé Prévost. 1697–1763, French novelist, noted for his romance Manon Lescaut (1731), which served as the basis for operas by Puccini and Massenet