Manon Lescaut

The Chevalier de Grieux, a young and talented man from a noble family, successfully finishes his studies in Amiens and plans to return home. But on the eve of departure he meets a beautiful girl whom her parents want to send to a convent because of her disobedience. In love, de Grieux proposes that she run away to Paris—unable to resist his feelings. This is how one of the most tragic and captivating love stories in world literature begins.