opera by Italian composer Giacomo Puccini Manon Lescaut (1940), a drama in verse by Czech poet Vítězslav Nezval Boulevard Solitude (1952) "Lyrisches Drama" (lyric drama) or opera by German composer Hans Werner Henze Manon (first performed in 1884), a ballet with music by Jules Massenet and choreography by Kenneth MacMillan Manon (2015), a musical written for the Takarazuka troupe by librettist/director Keiko Ueda and composer Joy Son Films Manon Lescaut (1926), directed by Arthur Robison, with Lya de Putti When a Man Loves (1927), directed by Alan Crosland, with John Barrymore and Dolores Costello Manon Lescaut (1940), directed by Carmine Gallone, with Vittorio de Sica and Alida Valli Manon (1949), directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, with Michel Auclair and Cécile Aubry The Lovers of Manon Lescaut (1954), directed by Mario Costa Manon 70 (1968), directed by Jean Aurel, with Catherine Deneuve and Sami Frey Manón (1986), Venezuelan movie directed by Román Chalbaud, with Mayra Alejandra Manon Lescaut (2013), directed by Gabriel Aghion, with Céline Perreau and Samuel Theis Translations English translations of the original 1731 version of the novel include Helen Waddell's (1931). For the 1753 revision there are translations by, among others, L. W. Tancock (Penguin, 1949—though he divides the 2-part novel into a number of chapters), Donald M. Frame (Signet, 1961—which notes differences between the 1731 and 1753 editions), Angela Scholar (Oxford, 2004, with extensive notes and commentary), and Andrew Brown (Hesperus, 2004, with a foreword by Germaine Greer). Henri Valienne (1854–1908), a physician and author of the first novel in the constructed language Esperanto, translated Manon Lescaut into that language. His translation was published at Paris in 1908, and reissued by the British Esperanto Association in 1926. Citations Additional references Kunitz, Stanley J. & Colby, Vineta (1967). François Prévost, Antoine in European Authors 1000–1900, pp. 743–44. H.W. Wilson Company, New York. Bibliography Sylviane Albertan-Coppola, Abbé Prévost : Manon Lescaut, Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1995 . André Billy, L'Abbé Prévost, Paris: Flammarion, 1969. René Démoris, Le Silence de Manon, Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1995 . Patrick Brady, Structuralist perspectives in criticism of fiction : essays on Manon Lescaut and La Vie de Marianne, P. Lang, Berne ; Las Vegas, 1978. Patrick Coleman, Reparative realism : mourning and modernity in the French novel, 1730–1830, Geneva: Droz, 1998 . Maurice Daumas, Le Syndrome des Grieux : la relation père/fils au XVIIIe siècle, Paris: Seuil, 1990 . R. A. Francis,