Manon Lescaut

The Chevalier de Grieux, a talented young man from a noble family, having graduated with honors in philosophy from Amiens, plans to return to his ancestral home, but just before his departure, he meets a beautiful stranger. Her parents want to send her to a convent for her disobedience and free spirit, and de Grieux, unable to resist his feelings, promptly offers to run away with her to Paris… Thus begins one of the most tragic and all-consuming love stories in world literature…