Death of Manon Lescaut Antique Print ~ Bouveret

Antique Goupil & Cie. photogravure print from the picture by Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret.

Printed on mid-weight ivory colored stock. Reverse side is blank.

Title: Manon Lescaut

Publication: The Masterpieces of French Art

Publication Year: 1883

Approximate Page Size (in inches): 14 x 11

Approximate Image Size (in inches): 10 x 7

Condition: Some light foxing in margin area. Image area is in very good overall condition with a light spot of foxing. Atticpaper.com watermark does not appear on actual print.

Undoubtedly one of the most popular of the minor French classics is the Abbe Provost's novel, "Manon Lescaut," a story of stormy, passionate love, amounting to infatuation -- repulsive in its immorality, but enthralling in its interest.

After many vicissitudes, the heroine is transported to Louisiana, at the time of the novel one of the French penal colonies, whither she is voluntarily accompanied by her infatuated lover, who is a gentleman of good family. On their arrival there he declares Manon Lescaut to be his wife, and she is treated with much consideration by the Governor. They, for a time, enjoy a season of real felicity, till the nephew of the Governor discovers, accidentally, their real relationship, and having been inspired with a passion for the beauty of Manon, he takes steps for the separation of the lovers, in the furtherance of his selfish ends.

The lovers, becoming aware of their danger, escape into the wilderness, where, in two days, Manon is seized with a malignant fever and dies. Her lover, in mournful despair, buries her in the sand, digging her grave with his hands.