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Excerpt from L'Abbe Prevost: Histoire de Sa Vie Et de Ses Oeuvres d'Apres des Documents Nouveaux
Personne n'a ete plus calomnie que l'immortel auteur de Manon Lescaut. Voici le sommaire de sa biographie, d'apres les recits accredites.
Aux debuts de sa carriere d'homme de lettres, on raconte que l'abbe Prevost est l'un de cinq freres bien apparentes, mais qui tournerent mal. Quant a lui en particulier, d'abord jesuite, puis soldat, jesuite de nouveau, soldat encore, il deserte, se refugie en Hollande et y epouse deux femmes a la fois. Bigame et ingrat, il les abandonne a l'improviste, se sauve a Baie en Suisse, d'ou il est chasse par les habitants; meme desagrement lui arrive a Londres: alors, il revient en France et se fait religieux benedictin.
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Synopsis
Excerpt from L'Abb Prevost: Histoire de Sa Vie Et de Ses Oeuvres d'Apr s des Documents Nouveaux
Prevost reprend le cours de ses aventures Londres, o il embrasse la religion pr tendue r form e, en attendant qu'il se fasse bonze ou mufti fabrique de fausses lettres de change, est arr t et n' chappe la potence que par le plus grand des hasards.
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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.