Manon Lescaut - Abbé Prévost

A french classic I have read in an english translation (since I don't read french mon amie). Couldn't have guessed Manon was a girl's name. And a very beautiful one who leads to ruin and damnation her inconditional lover the Chevalier des Grieux. It reminds me of "les liaisons dangereuses", written some fifty years later. Puccini composed an opera.