Abbé Prévost

Antoine François Prévost was born in Hesdin in 1697, into a family of lawyers, and was educated by the Jesuits. He left them for the army, then took his vows with the Benedictines in 1721. In 1728 he fled his abbey and went to England. Back in France, he wrote a literary periodical until 1740 and later translated the novels of the Englishman Samuel Richardson. He died in 1763 at Courteuil, near Chantilly.

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• NovelManon LescautAbbé Prévost · 1731LiteraturePublic domain