Excerpt from Histoire de Manon Lescaut Et du Chevalier Desgrieux1temps éternel. On peut en parler à toute h [re, sans but, sans occasion, uniquem'ent poe1r en parler. C'est surt9ut quand on est aux prises avec les plus beaux livres de notre temps, dans lesquels l'unalyse, et, pour ainsi dire, l'anatomie, ont remplacé la peinture des£runs son manon nsscnur.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.