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Antoine Francois Prevost was born at Hesdin, France, on the 1st of April 1697. His father, Lievin Prevost, was a lawyer, and several members of the family had embraced the ecclesiastical estate.
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Antoine Francois Prevost was born at Hesdin, France, on the 1st of April 1697. His father, Lievin Prevost, was a lawyer, and several members of the family had embraced the ecclesiastical estate.
Prevost was educated at the Jesuit school of Hesdin, and in 1713 became a novice of the order in Paris, pursuing his studies at the same time at the college of La Fleche. At the end of 1716 he left the Jesuits to join the army, but he soon tired of life in barracks, and returned to Paris in 1719 with the idea, apparently, of resuming his novitiate. He joined in 1719-1720 the learned community of the Benedictines of St Maur, with whom he found refuge, he himself says, after the unlucky termination of a love affair. He took the vows at Jumieges in 1721 after a year's novitiate, and received in 1726 priest's orders at St Germer de Flaix.
In 1728 he was at the abbey of St Germain-des-Pres, Paris, where he was engaged on the Gallia Christiana, the learned work undertaken by the monks in continuation of the works of Denys de Sainte-Marthe, who had been a member of their order. His restless spirit made him seek from the Pope a transfer to the easier rule of Cluny, but without waiting for the brief, he left the abbey without leave (1728), and, learning that his superiors had obtained a lettre de cachet against him, fled to England. In London he acquired considerable knowledge of English history and literature, traceable throughout his writings.
Before leaving the Benedictines Prevost had begun his most famous romance, Memoires et avantures d'un homme de qualite qui s'est retire du monde, the first four volumes of which were published in Paris in 1728, and two years later at Amsterdam. In 1729 he left England for Holland, where he began to publish (Utrecht, 1730) a novel, the material of which, at least, had been gathered in London Le Philosophe anglais, ou Histoire de Monsieur Cleveland, fils naturel de Cromwell, écrite par lui-même, et traduite de l'anglais (Paris 1731-1739, 8 vols. , but most of the existing sets are partly Paris and partly Utrecht). A spurious fifth volume (Utrecht, 1734) contained attacks on the Jesuits, and an English translation of the whole appeared in 1734.
Meanwhile, during his residence at the Hague, he engaged on a translation of the Historia of De Thou, and, relying on the popularity of his first book, published at Amsterdam a Suite in three volumes, forming volumes of the original Memoires et avantures d'un homme de qualite. The seventh volume contained the famous Manon Lescaut, separately published in Paris in 1731 as Les Aventures du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut. In 1733 he left the Hague for London in company with a lady whose character, as given by Prevost's enemies, was far from desirable.
In London he edited a weekly gazette on the model of Addison's Spectator, Le Pour et contre, which he continued to produce, with short intervals, until 1740. In the autumn of 1734 Prevost was reconciled with the Benedictines, and, returning to France, was received in the Benedictine monastery of La Croix-Saint-Leufroy in the diocese of Evreux to pass through a new, though brief, novitiate.
In 1735 he was dispensed from residence in a monastery by becoming almoner to the prince de Conti, and in 1754 obtained the priory of St Georges de Gesnes. He continued to produce novels and translations from the English, and, with the exception of a brief exile (1741 - 1742) spent in Brussels and Frankfort, he resided for the most part at Chantilly until his death.
Prevost's other works include: Le Doyen de Killerine, histoire morale, composie sur les memoires d'une illustre famille d'Ireland, Tout pour I'amour, Histoire d'une Grecque moderne, Histoire de Marguerite d'Anjou, Memoires pour servir a I'histoire de Malte, Campagnes philosophiques, ou memoires contenant Vhistoire de la guerre d'Irelande, Histoire de Guillaume le Conquerant, Histoire generate des voyages.
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