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The Chevalier des Grieux sums up most pertinently the inherent paradox in the Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut1 that gives it its special ambiguity. He has just told us once again how the whole world is as nothing beside Manon’s presence and love: ‘Je la tiens du moins, disais-je; elle m’aime, elle est à moi. Tiberge a beau dire, ce n’est pas là un fantôme de bonheur. Je verrais périr tout l’univers sans y prendre intérêt. Pourquoi? Parce que je n’ai plus d’affection de reste.’ Though beautifully expressed, this is the basic stuff of the traditional romance. Manon Lescaut combines it with a further dimension. The Chevalier continues:
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Notes
J. Sgard, Prévost romancier ( Paris: Corti, 1968 ), p. 402.
E. Showalter, Jr., ‘Money matters and early novels’, Yale French Studies, 40 (1968), p. 121.
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Mason, H. (1982). Money and the Establishment: Prévost (1697–1763). In: French Writers and their Society 1715–1800. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04660-7_6
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